best laid plans

An hour ago I thought I'd go to bed "early".... then I peeked inside a box of old photos, cards, and letters that my grandmother gave to me last weekend for my sister and I to share.

The box contained snippets of the last 6 decades and every item in that box chronicled the life of a very good man who loved his family very much. Both the family he was born to and the family he fathered.

Four days from today would have been his 67th birthday. Dear God, I miss him so.