Happy Birthday Dad!
Jun. 2nd, 2005 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1My dad turns 79 today.
He doesn't have a computer, and has no plans to get one, so he's not likely to see this.
As far as I can remember, he's been on the trailing edge of technology. We didn't get a color TV until '72, and didn't get cable until '84. My parents still have rotary-dial phones. The kitchen still has its original '50s retro decor, although the oven was replaced this past year. (The built-in GE stove is turquoise with electric burners.)
I know this is not the time or place for me to discuss my father wounds, so I won't. Believe me, there are plenty of them. But he had a rough childhood. My grandfather died when my dad was 7. Because he had no other brothers (and 3 sisters), he had to become the man of the house. And what he learned, he passed on to me.
He wasn't a perfect dad -- and face it, what man is? -- but he did the best he could. Thanks, Dad.
He doesn't have a computer, and has no plans to get one, so he's not likely to see this.
As far as I can remember, he's been on the trailing edge of technology. We didn't get a color TV until '72, and didn't get cable until '84. My parents still have rotary-dial phones. The kitchen still has its original '50s retro decor, although the oven was replaced this past year. (The built-in GE stove is turquoise with electric burners.)
I know this is not the time or place for me to discuss my father wounds, so I won't. Believe me, there are plenty of them. But he had a rough childhood. My grandfather died when my dad was 7. Because he had no other brothers (and 3 sisters), he had to become the man of the house. And what he learned, he passed on to me.
He wasn't a perfect dad -- and face it, what man is? -- but he did the best he could. Thanks, Dad.
