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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Fathers represent another way of looking at life – the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Louise J. Kaplan, (Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978)

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8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 20th 2010

8 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. JD says:
    June 20, 2010 at 9:42 am

    probably your best photograph so far

    :)

    • CherryPie says:
      June 20, 2010 at 11:14 pm

      It was appropriate for today but I very nearly reposted this one(also appropriate), which appeared on my previous blog.

      There is another suitable date coming up soon so I think I will repost it on my blog then and perhaps zoom in to the top two shelves ;-)

  2. jams O'Donnell says:
    June 20, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Been to pay my respects. A copy of Carmen was offered rathere than champagne

    • CherryPie says:
      June 20, 2010 at 11:17 pm

      The champagne (in the pic) is just a nice memory :-) There is however still a bottle of that vintage that needs to be shared on an appropriate occasion.

      Carmen sounds a fine offering :-)

  3. jameshigham says:
    June 20, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    Ah yes, that’s today.

  4. Anonymous says:
    June 21, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    4 years: My Dad can do anything!
    7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
    15 years: My father does not know quite everything.
    18 years: Father is so old-fashioned.
    21 years: Oh, that man – he thinks he knows but he doesn’t.
    25 years: He knows a bit about it, but not much.
    30 years: I might find out what Dad thinks about it.
    35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad’s idea first.
    50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
    60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
    65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad.

    Not everyone has had a good and loving father. It is easier for a man to have children than for children to have a real father. And even if you had a good one, a great shock awaits when you realize that one day, no matter how badly you wish to speak with him, you can’t; it is not possible.

    • CherryPie says:
      June 21, 2010 at 11:10 pm

      Yes my dad always did seem to know the answers to everything that I needed to know. In later years I was always a bit surprised when there were occasions when I knew things that he didn’t. And yes he was always the person I enjoyed chatting to the most and who I would go to for advice.

      Then with all his various illnesses over the last few years despite having many friends volunteering, it would be me he would ask to take him in to hospital etc