How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's

"I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.” (Alanna Shaikh)

- Thank you Alanna---

Remembering Dad

Searching through images--
And coming upon a folder "Dad" -- I'd forgotten I had made sure it was transferred to this computer--
Images originally gathered and scanned for his memorial service-
Now smiling, remembering--

The engineer

The gardener

The Sailor

He loved the water

Even in his last years

Our father

When I was very young and he traveled lots for his job, he sent me a quote that has been with me all the days of my life--

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw

Thank you Daddy--

Slide rule--

Photo Credit

I saw this
My heart stopped for a moment
Remembering
Dad

A slide rule
Captured the essence of him
At one point in his life

He carried one everyday
His tie bar was a slide rule

Mechanical engineer
Logarithms, numbers and math

And so much more

Obviously I'm no poet but when Bud Hunt shared this image as a prompt for the NPM it touched my heart in so many ways---

Father's Day

Miss you Daddy--