I know I should save this post for Christmas, since this letter was written on Christmas Day of 1989, but I found it today and wanted to share it. Maybe thinking about Christmas will make us feel cooler...what do you think?
From the time I went to college in 1975 until shortly before he died in 2002, my dad wrote to me each week. I saved many of the letters and occasionally I will come upon them while cleaninng or shifting books or going through files.
I found this one in my desk at work. I smiled when I read it and I cried when I read it.
Here's part of what he wrote: "Thanks for the plant, photographs and donation. they were all so thoughtful. But most of all, thank you and God bless you for your unyielding support for me. I know at times I have been a trial."
The letter goes on: "One thing for sure, i want you to never, never lose your values and zest for life and nevergive up the good fight to right injustice and help those who can't help themselves."
But here's what gets me most: "Merry Christmas to you all and may the new year bring us all peace and love for one another. I guess if I had a wish, it would be that the hungry would be fed, the homeless would have homes , the violence ended and the wealth more evenly distributed."
Oh yeah. That's my dad.
