Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday Dad. I miss you so much. You used to make a pancake breakfast for everyone in the neighborhood on your birthday, and it made you so happy to feed everyone. I was thinking of doing that to celebrate you this year, but didn't get around to it. Hopefully I will do it next year. This weekend we spent on the Cape, and I thought about you a lot as I gazed out onto the ocean.

Here is a picture of you and grandma. You always tried to visit her around her birthday, and I know that if you didn't make it, you were thinking about her. I am thinking about you today.

Love Anica

Happy Birthday Dad! I miss you SO much, but love you SO much more!

We think about you all the time and continuously ask ourselves "What would dad do in this situation?" We wish we had so much more time with you and we send our Love and Wishes with you.

Happy Birthday Dad,

Love,

Gabe, Andrea, Emory & Lily

"True you ride the finest horse I have ever seen
Standing sixteen, one or two, with eyes wild and green
And you ride the horse so well, hands light to the touch
I could never go with you no matter how I wanted to

Ride on, see you, I could never go with you
No matter how I wanted to
Ride on, see you, i could never go with you
No matter how i wanted to

When you ride into the night without a trace behind
Run your claw along my gut, one last time
I turn to face an empty space, where once you used to lie
And look for a spark that lights the dark
Through a teardrop in my eye

Ride on, see you, I could never go with you
No matter how I wanted to
Ride on, see you, i could never go with you
No matter how i wanted to"

-Christy Moore

Whenever I hear this song, it makes me think of you, Dad. It is a very good song, and now whenever I hear it, I can't help but think of you. I miss you. Ride on, Dad.

Love, Claire

I miss you dad. We just bought a new house (new to us), and just thinking about the things we want to change, update, or fix makes me want to talk to you about it. You would have such great ideas and be able to answer my questions about how to do things or what to buy. During one of our recent recent phone calls you said we should invite handy friends over and cook them dinner or something. I am sure we will take you up on your advice.

Love and miss you,
Anica

I miss you so much dad - i have been thinking of you always and keeping you close, in both my memories and daily activities. I am starting my own coin collection as I fondly recall the joy on your face during our discussions over your collection and I hope to be able to share the same with your grandson, my son. I love you so much dad and miss you to no end.

Forever in my thoughts and in the laughter of my children dad,

Gabe

He loved puns and jokes

My dad loved playing with words - he would come up with all sorts of puns and jokes about common phrases, and would ponder out loud about how "butter flies", "frost heaves" and "bread sticks" (and as Claire will tell you, he conducted a test and determined that bread in fact, does not stick). My mom read us the "Little House on the Prairie" series when we were little, and I remember talking to my dad about how Mary came home in one of the chapters. We spent quite a while talking about how someone could travel in a chapter....One that recently came to my mind: What would you get if everyone in the country had a pink car? A pink carnation! I most certainly miss the jokes, goofiness and stories.

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other

That we are still

Call me by my old familiar name

Speak to me in the easy way you always used

Put no difference into your tone

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed

At the little jokes we always enjoyed together

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was

Let it be spoken without effort

Without the ghost of a shadow in it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was

There is absolute unbroken continuity

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind

Because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you for an interval

Somewhere very near

Just around the corner

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost

One brief moment and all will be as it was before 

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

Georgette, Me (Anica), Dad, and Claire outside of one of Dad's favorite restaurants - affectionately known as "Susan B Anthony's"

My dad and I (Anica) dancing at our wedding, June 20, 2009. We danced to "You get brighter" by the Incredible String Band. He picked the song, and it was perfect.

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