My Father

My father (retired) works as an installer for my sister Vickie's Custom Blind Company. Every now and again for the past 3 months or so I will occassionally help him out on a few jobs here and there. Working with him is a very pleasurable, eyeopening insight into where (or from whom) I came from.
Working with my dad is a real joy for me. It's that special kind of Special that money could never come close to touching: PRICELESS. Like many, I didn't have him around growing up, but that's okay. I have never held that against him, even though it was really hard for me because as I have grown into an adult I figured that it must have been that way for a reason. That 'reason' I have never really tried to put a face to, but I have always known that Love was the Answer to that riddle no matter what the technicalities or legistics were 40 years ago.
When I was 29 I decided to go for it. The reality doesn't change if no one makes a move--so I did, and I am So Deeply Happy and at Peace that I did. It is fathoms beyond the written word. .... So I wrote my dad and asked if he would like to get to know one another. I also set out from the start that I didn't want anything from him save to get to know him and perhaps his friendship if it was two way. He agreed....That was 13 years ago. We have been getting to know one another since that time. Yeah, it was slightly awkward at first, but only slightly. That quickly gave way to a friendship that has been fun, honest, and more than anything Familiar and Real.
Spending time with him more and more has been like being with a twin aspect of myself. A part of yourself that you hadn't seen for a long time, but that you knew really well. That's how it feels, and it just continues to go deeper and broader. Astounding..... Sometimes you don't know what you've been without until you have it. The hole and the void that was there.....You just had no........idea.
This is someone that gets your humor --no explanation needed. This is someone that your inner processes and ways came from. There is a native understanding of you--priceless--because of this. You intuit each other's responses like 'nobody's business'.
Astounding. Incredible. Beautiful.
Once you love your parents, you see a higher intelligence at work in these things. ...When you love for love's sake, not a barter. No business arrangement. Love for Free. Isn't that what it IS....?
Getting to know my father is a Living Blessing
A Bloom that has no age
The more you look the further it goes
From dusk to twilight to dusk again
Timeless
Thank You God
Looking into your Eyes I See You Looking
Into Me Looking Into You

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A family healing is very special to hear of. This is a miracle.
Your dad, your sister and your nephews next, if that hasn't already
started for you.

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