What If?

Ever wish you could turn back time and

ask your father why he decided to marry

your mother? And why on earth did he

chose to make sales a career instead of

becoming a machinist at the GM plant?

What was it he impressed upon you as a

child which may have sent you on life’s

journey you grew into pursuing? He’s gone

now and you are left with all these questions

unanswered. Although it may be too late to

change the way things turned out for you,

it still begs you to wonder, what if dad had

been a farmer instead? Today, you may have

risen at 4 AM. Rain, snow or sleet not with-

standing, the cows still needing to be milked.

Thank god, you’re not a pre-dawn person. And

as for the sales thing, it never worked out for

you either. Black coffee, a Beethoven sonata

playing on the stereo, and settling in to read

and write poetry at daybreak is more your speed.

As a child, when dad wasn’t out on the road for

work, he would occasionally read Robert Frost to

you and your two brothers before bedtime. I guess

your brothers preferred dad’s reading of Treasure

Island. It seems in their lifetimes they have been

chasing adventures of a different kind.

Chris Hanch 2-20-18