Remembering my Dad . . .

[markpkessinger]

Given that yesterday was Father’s Day, i have been thinking a lot about my own father, and my relationship with him. We disagreed about some things,politics being chief among them. He was a staunch, conservative Republican (albeit of an older variety of conservative Republican that is largely extinct today), and I am an unabashed liberal/progressive. But he was ALWAYS willing to hear what I had to say, and to do so respectfully, and, on occasion, to acknowledge that I had a legitimate point to make. And it is that quality that I find utterly lacking in today’s Republicans, including, sad to say, some in my own family!

He died 23 years ago, and I still miss him!1


[William B. Kessinger, circa 1964, taken in Rome.]

[FuzzyRabbit]

1. I remember my dad fondly.

I forgive him his faults (what few they were) and remember all the wonderful things he did. And I still miss him 30 years after he died.

[Skittles]

2. whoa

HANDSOME!