Brief Candles

It’s my dad’s birthday today. I think about him every day, but today… moreso.

At least he won’t be getting another disaster cake. That thing looked like a tire that’d been stuck in the mud — but it tasted good.

Dad blowing out candles

I stumbled across this the other day, the first picture taken of my dad.

young picture of Dad

I don’t know what he’s looking at, but I couldn’t help imagining he was staring off to the future, his whole life ahead of him. And now that story is finished, closed off.

Life is strange, and not altogether fair.

I love you, Dad, and I miss you.