Family-It was fifty years ago today.

You were lucky to have them, Doc. This was a nice tribute.

You have awesome memories of your parents. You are so lucky to have known that kind of love even though you feel the loss now.

just part of life Dani.

God Bless, Doc

That's a nice tribute. :)

Oh, I'll bet they were just wonderful parents and I know you must miss them!!!

Mom and Dad were both very artistic people. They didn't have the benefit, partially from growing up during the Depression, and partially because both set of their folks were in their own quiet way crazy as loons, they didn't have the kind of parental support that helps sometimes make artists.

In their way they did everything they could to avoid that for me, they saw to it that I had things that we thought I needed.
In the end, and I don't hold it against them, the deep deep set core of failure that had been instilled into them by poverty and their folks transmitted.
That and the booze ruined us all for many years.

Seeing Mom come back, too late yes, but still.... showed me another way.

it ain't over till it's over, and I ain't over yet.

Thank you Mom & Dad.

I have to share this with you, Doc. When my father was dying of cancer, he apologized for some things that he did that weren't helpful to the family. I let him know that he had been forgiven many years ago. And, I came to understand how his own parents (my grandparents whom I adored) didn't help him to get a good start in life. Dad enjoyed liquor a little too much for his own good like your parents. I think that it might have been the times. Liquor was more medicinal then than it is today. So, it wasn't that great of a leap to fall into trouble with "booze."

I told Dad that his children honored him by stopping the cycle. He asked me if I was just saying it. I responded by telling him how my sisters changed the way they raised their children. Then, I told him how my brothers focused on becoming the best that they could be. Then, I reminded him that his weaknesses were always present, but his advice was always sound. Sometimes, even the most screwed up people are capable of showing their children that there is a better way. My Dad was one of those people. I suspect that your parents might have been special in that way, as well. Thanks for indulging my story. You are absolutely right. We aren't dead, yet. So, there is some time to get it right.

amen Joe... after awhile you realize what they went thru and the kind of guts it took simply to survive.
amen, and thank you.

thank you very much.

Very sweet tribute

so very sweet....33 years together doesn't even seem that long..I met my husband in 81. where did the time go... oh yeah, it went to diapers...

you had very good parents, and that is what made you a very, very good man. I hope you find an equally good woman.

it was all the time they had Kathryn, all the time in the world to them.
Dad was shortly back from the world war, Mom had had her trials as well.

they loved eachother very much. I was jealous in a way.

Doc,

Yours reminds me of mine, and causes me to KNOW that happy marriages do occur. The hardest part is when one dies, and the other is left. My mom spoke to it by saying she had just lost her best friend, and the person she had spent the greatest part of her life with.

This is a sweet tribute to your parents, to love, and to good relationships!

Columbus Day,

and my little godson's birthday!!!

. . .at least one of my godsons.

Ok, you all are making me cry. I'm in the library and this will not be tolerated. I embarasse myself enough as it is......I'm jealous too, because I don't expect to find that.

Deb;

nor do I.. I have settled for far far less. and even though I've stopped doing that the odds are horrible.