Well Guys...
Thanks for the quick response from you all. I really am not sure what I intended this blog to be. I have most of yours, and have been encouraged and amused with seeing where your lives are right now and what kinds of things you are going through. So many times I would read about, say, Geoff’s rock-climbing adventures or Kevin & Tina’s adventures in parenthood and get a good dose of the warm fuzzies and reflect on how much I miss you all.
So, I really did not know what exactly I was supposed to use this for. It is open-ended. It might be deep, it might be shallow. I’m sure it may even be boring to you at times. I’ll try not to make it dull.
That said, I received a phone call this morning that pretty much gave me my first topic. My sister called to tell me (against my father’s wishes) that hospice care has been called to assist with my dad’s last days. Apparently the cancer has come back, and spread, and taken its toll. I say apparently because my dad and I don’t have much of a relationship. Actually, we don’t have any. I am not going to go into the nitty and the gritty, or toss accusations or defense-statements about why this is so. It just “is” the situation. And, to keep this short and avoid a misrepresentation of both my father and my own perspectives on both our distance and the silence between us, I will leave it this: I won’t be going back for any final last words or visits. This is not out of spite, nor any ill-will. It just is.
So. If you consider yourself a person of prayer, please drop a few for my mom and dad.
Sorry for the delay in posting my first “official” blog entry. As you can imagine, I’ve had a few things to sort through on the emotional level.
I guess I succeeded in avoiding dull for my first ever blog. But then that might be a matter of perspective.
~KL
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