#Journal, Day 1914
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1220
Hamas-Israel War: Day 616
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 155
Days of OSG in office: 147
Days until Midterm Elections: 506

#FathersDay 2025.

#missyoudad #jeep #familytreasure

#Journal, Day 1640
Saturday, 14 September 2024
Ukraine War: Day 935
Hamas-Israel War: Day 342
Mass shootings in the USA in 2024: 393
Days until the 2024 Election: 52

My dad’s birthday

#missyoudad #commuting #declutter
#sentimentalvalue #momgift #sad

Damn, why does my surgery have to be on my dad’s birthday?

I suddenly started tearing up in the hospital waiting for my skin graft surgery.

😢💟

Glad I thought to arrange friends to visit me this afternoon.

#Grief #MissYouDad #DeadParentClub

The dogwood
A poem

i.
A dogwood I planted
back when my dad died
reminds me of my home
that I had to leave behind

ii.
It blooms now every year
right on his death day
Its white flower is his angel
so he’s with me on my way

iii.
The cat has left the cradle
and the silver spoon is gone
and the little boy blue
is now a man walking on

#poem #poemaday #poetry #writing #photography #bloomscrolling #missyoudad

[Photo: A Virginia dogwood I planted as my dad was dying]

How is it three years
Since you left this mortal coil?
Miss you so much, Dad

😢💟

#Haiku #Poetry #Grief #DeathAnniversary #MissYouDad #DeadParentClub #StacieBee

Grief over the anniversary of my dad’s death is a bit different this year. I just stumbled upon a photo I took the day after he passed of a Xmas photo of him from 1993. After I took that photo almost 3 years ago, I couldn’t stop sobbing and noises came out of my body that I’d never heard before. I cried this time but it was not as severe. Cannot believe it will be 3 years on Tuesday since he passed.

😢

#Grief #DeathAnniversary #MissYouDad #DeadParentClub

#Journal, Day 1186
Sunday, 18 June 2023
(Day 48 of #WGAstrike)

#FathersDay #offday
#zoom #crash #birdsofmastodon
#missyoudad

Ten years ago today in Dad's final journey, some doctor or technician apparently declared, "His lungs are beautiful!"

So, the problem wasn't in his lungs. Other scans indicated deficient diaphragm function on both sides, but that was a "what" not a "why" or "how." So, at this point in Dad's Cleveland Clinic stay, it was still: Scan, evaluate, eliminate another theory, and repeat.

#ClevelandClinic #StillSayingGoodbye #GoodbyeDad #MissYouDad

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRt46qk9/

The one ancestor who's opinion i care about. #MissYouDad.