As Little Children
Dear Daddy, I am awake at 4 am and can't help thinking that if I had awakened in the early morning while I was visiting you in Idaho, we could have one of our famous talks. You would be downstairs making whole wheat toast or sitting in a recliner chair reading a book. I would drop on the couch wrapped in a warm blanket and we would talk and laugh and talk a little more. So, I am going to pretend. Pretend I am talking to you, laughing, crying then laughing again. You told me one time, "When I was a young man I became very ill and had an ulcer from worrying so much. I decided I would try to laugh when I felt like crying and pretty soon it became a habit. I have not had an ulcer since". Surely if I were there we would laugh much more than we would cry. Thanks for this lesson as it was surely a week full of times where I could have just cried. It was a week of opposites for me and when I heard you got sick while serving i...