Happiness and Tears

Father's Day. Happiness to all fathers today and all year!

I was going through some old stuff in my closet last night when I ran across a letter my dad had written to me in Chicago from the Bay Area. He had been transferred to a job six months before we packed up the house and moved during summer vacation.

I was twelve years old.

It was a sweet letter about how he was touched that I had written to him. Apparently, my other siblings had not. Between the lines of that letter, I felt the relationship that we had together as adults that was so special and so real. I burst into tears. I was suddenly reminded of how special he was and how lucky I was to have him as a dad.

I deeply miss my dad this Father's Day.