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Are you a technical writer or an emotional writer? The spectrum is wide; I tend to lean emotional, and I know this by how fast words I can associate with emotion find the page. Writing about Father's Day was the same way.
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Original Post #277 on Sunday June 18, 2023
[Vol. 1 Issue #277]
Happy Father's Day to everyone who cares for, teaches, motivates, coaches, and inspires young people regardless of relationship. If you care for others and help people grow, you embody what it means to be a father. For those blessed to be fathers, take the opportunity during the day to spend a minute or two in gratitude for the opportunity you had to wear the role.
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There is a second, Jackson Brown; the first is a world-famous singer/songwriter, think Running on Empty. The second, H. Jackson Brown Jr. gave his son Adam a small book of tips when he went to college. The tips and ideas turned into books for the rest of us. In the early 90s, Life’s Little Instruction Book, and others like it, gave some young adults common sense advice on living. Father's Day is the perfect time to remember a few of the tips made famous by everybody’s favorite 90s advice giver:
Compliment three people every day.
Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
Be the first to say "Hello."
Remember birthdays; it's the best way to show you care.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Be forgiving of yourself and others.
Plant a tree on your birthday.
Wave at children on school buses.
Take time to smell the roses.
Brown passed away in 2021 at 81; the NYT did a nice write up on him and his stories. It sounds cliché to say we don’t see as much common-sense advice these days as we used to. Simpler times again sounds so familiar, but outside the mugs and tee shirts, the messages are on now; the messages aren't the same. As a young adult in the early 90s and a first-time father in the mid-90s, I had a library of Brown's books and the page-a-day calendars he also put out. The advice is soothing to read and timeless in its message.
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Writers think in words, and we write all the time. Most of what we write doesn't make a final publication, and some of it starts in a journal, but even what we write in our personal journals is just the draft copy of what will one day be a feature. Every Father's Day, I look back on some of my journals to review what I've written about being a father. I'm not H. Jackson Brown Jr., but his ideas did shape some of my own. Here is a sample of a few of the best things I've written about being a father to; Cole, Alex, and Noah.
I like hearing Cole's first heartbeats.
Seeing Patti's first pregnant glow.
Every Dr. appointment.
Anticipation, fear, and wonder.
The evaporation of Time.
The three P's of parenthood; Pee, Poop, and Puke.
Leaving my work and my ego at my front door.
Sleep.
Mirrors when I hold my babies.
How extreme chaos can create deep mental calm?
Thinking small, being simple, & experiencing life vs. comparing it to anything else.
Dressing like little "big" people.
Everywhere tears.
Where's your nose?
Hugs and kisses.
Sitting still just for one moment.
All the "times" = story time, bath time, bedtime, and playtime.
For God's sake.
God.
Inspiration, hope, and brand new dreams.
Sippy cups.
Everything comes clean.
My instincts.
Being 3 hours past exhaustion.
Hero's.
Blind faith.
Understanding attention.
Understanding teeth?
Daddy D-A-D-D-Y.
Stick People.
One Fish, Two Fish, I read the book 1,000 Times Fish by Dr. Suess.
Thank you, Harry Potter.
True imagination.
Creativity is a kid's gene.
Skates, bikes, wagons, and going fast.
Skinned knees, bruises, and brick walls.
Daddy, I love you.
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