Speed of Life

I'd like to wish a Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. I was heartened to read President Obama's letter to fathers this morning. I have posted it below: Good morning, I grew up without a father around. I was lucky enough to be raised by a wonderful mother who, like so many heroic single mothers, never allowed my father's absence to be an excuse for me to slack off or not always do my best. But I often wonder what it would have been like if my father had a greater presence in my life. So as a father of two young girls, I've tried hard to be a good dad. I haven't always been perfect – there have been times when work kept me away from my family too often, and most of the parenting duties fell to Michelle. I know many other fathers face similar challenges. Whether you're a military dad returning from deployment or a father doing his best to make ends meet for his family in a tough economy, being a parent isn't easy. That's why my Adm...

Kent Chadwick in a Saffron Hug Bob Chadwick in Uniform Ralph Heilemann in DC9 Hat The Furrow -WS Merwin Did I think it would abide as it was forever all that time ago the turned earth in the old garden where I stood in spring remembering spring in another place that had ceased to exist and the dug roots kept giving up their black tokens their coins and bone buttons and shoe nails made by hands and bits of plates as the thin clouds of that season slipped past gray branches on which the early white petals were catching their light and I thought I knew something of age then my own age which had conveyed me to there and the ages of the trees and the walls and houses from before my coming and the age of the new seeds as I set each one in the ground to begin to remember what to become and the order in which to return and even the other age into which I was passing all the time while I was thinking...