Sunday, April 09, 2006 21:40:47
This weekend i stayed with my sister , Bettina, Even a bad weekend at her and Jacks house is a good weekend. Jack has done very well for himself and is aterrific provider for my sister. Very alpha male hard to be eye to eye with on a few things, however. He and I get along pretty well once he understood that although im opputunistic and some what greedy,.... i know what he has he earned and I appricieate everything he lets me have. That includes his hospitality, his car for litlle jaunts ,... his food and wine and time. This may sound strange but if i had what he had and worked as hard as he did to get it , i would want the people i shared it with to appreciate it too.\par
Bettina has a few photos of our family from my dad's side and our farm and us as children. I was browsing through them and it just plain hurt. I loved being my dad's son. However there were a lot of bitter people and situations around him and I rember those too. Looking at those pictures made me feel desperate to be back then and there with today's knowledge. I saw pictures of me as a child. I felt the love my father had for me becuase i s"