There
was so much my dad neglected to
tell
me as a child. Could be that he was just
waiting
for the right time when he figured
I
would be old enough to understand. (Perhaps
he
didn’t have all the answers himself.) Yet, he
did
teach me in his way when to be assertive,
and
when to be patient—“Go for it! Wait for it;
give
it time! The Earth is round, he’d tell me.
And
gravity allows you to keep your feet firmly
planted
on the ground.” He pointed to Orion
the
Hunter outlined by the stars at night. I
couldn’t
quite make out then the image he was
trying
to show me. It took a few more years
before
I could see a bit more clearly. “Next
time,
son, ask me before you take the hammer
from
my toolbox,” dad scolded, “and when you’re
done
with it, make sure you put it back in where
you
found it.” I was five-years old, and a sound
spanking
from dad taught me that lesson, made
me
realize that it was a good thing that I had
feigned
making out that Orion thing. Turned out
to
be one man’s vision anyway. But, I did learn at
a
very young age, rather than a whooping, a little
white
lie now and again didn’t smart nearly as bad.
Chris
Hanch 1-5-18
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