I remember a conversation I had with my dad once. It was in the summer time, and he and I were sitting on the porch. Everyone else was in the house watching t.v. and a few of the boys were already asleep. I had been out there just looking up at the stars when he came out to sit with me.
He was quiet for a while when he asked me "What do you want to study?" he paused for a moment then said, "I mean, you keep looking at those stars like you've been there before."
I smiled and thought of the movies Bluebird of Happiness with Liz Tayler and how they had one scene of the children getting ready to come down from Heaven to earth, and feeling in my soul, that yes I had in someway been there..
I replied. "Dad, I'd love to have books and sets of encyclopedias on the stars and the oceans. I would love to just sit and learn the names of very bright spot out there, and every depth within this earth..."
He sighed and said, " I wish I could get those for you baby, I really do. Maybe someday I can afford those for you..." and he hugged me.
One of the best memories I've ever had of my dad....
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