tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post111866986177897246..comments2023-10-09T05:27:59.888-04:00Comments on Why Won't You Grow?!: Musings for Father's DayDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587995461067202017noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post-1119392778871983202005-06-21T18:26:00.000-04:002005-06-21T18:26:00.000-04:00I have to share this one (also from Writer's Alman...I have to share this one (also from Writer's Almanac): <BR/><BR/>ONE TIME MY DAD <BR/><BR/>One time my dad said to me, I don't<BR/>see why people complain about how hard they work <BR/>or how tired they are. Nobody works hard but <BR/>farmers, miners, lumberjacks and foundry workers.<BR/>This was before power tools, tractors, and such things, and all<BR/>the work was done by hand. When farmers in Upstate New York<BR/>left to get away from the stones, what<BR/>they found in Southern Michigan were: more stones.<BR/>As they cleared the land, the horses hauled the black walnut trees<BR/>and stumps to the side of the field and the farmers burned them.<BR/>Black walnut was no good to them, too hard to work.<BR/>Grandpa Conde, when he finally left the farm and moved <BR/>to Milan, got a job in the foundry and walked to work<BR/>and back, six days a week, 12 hours<BR/>a day, for 50 cents a day. He thought<BR/>he was sitting pretty. Whenever the noon whistle blew, people<BR/>would say, Well, Hell's out for lunch. But he would sit <BR/>down in a cool place and eat his lunch.<BR/>Once, when she was a little girl, Aunt Ida<BR/>asked her father, who was working in his garden, why<BR/>he worked so hard and wasn't he tired? Grandpa<BR/>straightened up from his hoeing and answered: I never get tired. <BR/><BR/>Poem: "ONE TIME MY DAD" by Richard E. McMullen from Not Only Love. © Crowfoot Press. Reprinted with permission.Sven Gollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545633059051707884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post-1119391631359306132005-06-21T18:07:00.000-04:002005-06-21T18:07:00.000-04:00According to the Writer's Almanac: It was Strindbe...According to the Writer's Almanac: It was Strindberg who said, "That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all and the enemy of all." Oscar Wilde said, "Fathers should neither be seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life." <BR/><BR/>Ahem. <BR/><BR/>So what do Strindberg and Wilde know? They didn't have a cake remote like yours.Sven Gollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545633059051707884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post-1119286548237007332005-06-20T12:55:00.000-04:002005-06-20T12:55:00.000-04:00Lovely post, Burb! Your cake couldn't have been mo...Lovely post, Burb! Your cake couldn't have been more wonderful or appropriate.<BR/><BR/>Congrats on 3000+ satisfied readers!luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02078248950005444423noreply@blogger.com