~Taking Daddy Home~

By WordWulf, 15th Feb 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/1m9_tywd/
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~My tiny boys will never know him in the flesh though I see him on their faces~My heart will remember and teach them what I know as they travel this road with me taking Daddy home~

~Taking Daddy Home~

I talked to my son, Tommy, on the phone yesterday. He and my daughter-in-law, Heather, were in Sidney, Nebraska on the way to visit her relatives. I asked him to hug her and my GrandSons, Tristen and Deven, for me. Checking the truck out today, detailing the camper, preparing for my trip to Colorado next week to visit, I got to thinking about Heather. That led me to thoughts of her father, Mike. I wrote Taking Daddy Home for her when she lost him in 2003. It was published in an anthology, Whispers of Inspiration, in 2005.

~Taking Daddy Home ~

You might have seen him if you lived out West. He would be the man who helped you fix your car or offered you a ride. He was good and deep in his quiet way. When he knew his time was near he did some traveling, made his last good-byes and I, being the oldest of his girls, spent some good time with him, helped him any way I could in his end days as he had my beginning. My tiny boys will never know him in the flesh though I see him on their faces. My heart will remember and teach them what I know as they travel this road with me taking Daddy home. The wheel turns. Daddy’s hope lives in my heart. He is more of me than I knew. I’ll take him from these Rocky Mountains, his Colorado roam. Those Black Hills are calling us. I’m taking Daddy home.

~Tom (WordWulf) Sterner~
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WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)

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Denise O
15th Feb 2011 (#)

Very nice. Just darn sweet. I have had the same thoughts with my own kids, pertaining to my mama, their grandma. She is not here on earth but, she is in me and them more than I ever really noticed until she passed. Now I see her still living through me and them.
Thank you for sharing.:)

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WordWulf
16th Feb 2011 (#)

Thanks, Denise. I lost my mom 7/11/04. I agree with you. I am she is me.

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Emgee
15th Feb 2011 (#)