Pictures of My Father Are a Gift. So Was He.

Pictures of my father are a gift. So was he.

When I saw pictures of my father as a young man taken before I was born, my childhood memories engulfed me and put me in a world long gone.

The Father’s Day Gifts My Father Left for Me

The moment my father died was one of those indelible moments, the kind that stays with you. What I knew at that moment was emotional pain so searing that it doubled me over with its intensity and then made me feel so completely exhausted, so utterly drained that I could barely keep my eyes open. At that moment I knew in a visceral, gut-wrenching way that my life had just been unalterably and fundamentally changed. But, there were many, many thin…