Strong Dad June: A father’s memories, and the lessons they teach
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A father’s memories, and the lessons they teach
I spent time on Father’s Day remembering my dad, spending time with the memories we created over the years. Since he passed away several years ago, this is one of the ways I’ve “kept him with me”. As I work on being a “Strong Dad” today, I’m reminded during “Strong Dad June” how important it is to have a strong father or father figure in your life, to set that example.
My father served as that example.
I can go back in my earliest memories as a “70’s baby”, getting up early with my dad and drinking coffee with him, thinking this made me a grown up. I wondered if my sideburns would grow out like his and if coffee really does “put hair on your chest” (by the way, it doesn’t, even though that’s what he told me).
I remember us playing a game of “one on one baseball” in the backyard and me winning and acting as if I’d won the World Series. Yes, I know . . . “one on one baseball” . . . don’t ask, my imagination made it work.
Even managed to get more than a few “wins” in one-on-one basketball, too . . . even as a kid three times smaller than him.
But the big one is how I caught the most fish on almost every fishing trip. I had a winning streak that ran for I can’t remember how long. But I digress.
As a little kid, I really thought I did win those things back then. I didn’t realize until I got older that those were really “wins” for my dad. He got so much enjoyment from watching me celebrate, that it was really a “win” for him.
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We had our own celebrations of the moment in all the years to come as I got older. Sure the fishing trips continued, but we also connected through music, too. I used to love looking through my dad’s collection of 8-tracks when I was little, and listening to them in spare room of our house, and riding with him in his ’67 Chevelle. I was so little then, but damn I remember that car was loud and fast!
There were lots of trips to Peaches, Records, and Tapes in Greensboro to buy records. My dad is the main reason I’m such a big Janis Joplin fan to this day, not to mention The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, etc. But our best times were going to see concerts together.
After YEARS of me hounding him, my dad finally took me to see my first KISS concert in ’90. Honestly, he loved it “almost” as much as I did, but not so much for the music and show, but because we had fun together. Fast forward to 2015, when we went to see Buddy Guy play in Chapel Hill, NC . . . our last concert together. We walked the UNC campus that day before the show, looking back on my time as a student there and memories of the shows we’d seen. He laughed at my jokes and reminded me I “had no sense”. I laughed and agreed.
“Some of its magic, some of it’s tragic
But I had a good life all the way”
“He Went to Paris” – Jimmy Buffett
This quote from a Jimmy Buffett song is how I think my dad would look back on his life. There were good times and bad times, but we got through stuff as a family. I want to look back on life the same way and smile, too, just like those Jimmy Buffett lyrics make me do. Life is a song, right?
“I’ve got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out”
“Against the Wind” – Bob Seger
Those “deadlines and commitments”, what’s important and what isn’t. Seger spoke truth about life through song with this one. My priorities have changed over the years since I became a dad. There are lessons I’ve carried with me since I was a kid. My son and I have had fishing trips and concerts together. I took him to his first concert when he was 8 (KISS in 2010). We talk music a lot to this day, and so much more. It’s important for fathers and sons to have this kind of bond.
Yes, life is indeed a song. I do have more “deadlines and commitments” and I’m constantly working to remind myself what I do need to “leave in” and “leave out”. But I’ve seen how it’s done. I’ll follow those lessons.
God bless! Happy “Strong Dad June” to the fathers out there.
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