tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544160750552722326.post5930803736496474181..comments2021-03-27T06:49:04.178-07:00Comments on Everyman's 21st Century Blog: Tribute To A Passionate FatherRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037270846494437477noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544160750552722326.post-41347050294526868472012-06-14T17:35:04.189-07:002012-06-14T17:35:04.189-07:00Your father, Randy, is a wonderful man and an insp...Your father, Randy, is a wonderful man and an inspiration to many of the men who know him. I have been blessed to know your entire family. <br /><br />I remember growing up as a young man and my two older brothers and father joking and making fun when ever we tried or thought about kissing or hugging each other. Kissing our mother was fine, but try to do that with each other and we would laugh it off as a joke. After my 30s, I brought home physical expressions of love and affection that I learned with my male friends. I started with my father and he literally embarrassed it and returned it. It spread to my brothers and soon we all were able to show our love of each other with a hug or even a kiss. Up until the day my father and then my older brother died, we were able to express our love for each other verbally as well as physically with hugs and kisses. <br /><br />I was able to send my father and brother off to the other world knowing that they knew how much I loved them as well as that they loved me. That made the pastings much easier to handle.<br /><br />Thanks Randy for enabling these discussions.Marcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14399306897516238211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544160750552722326.post-91493872324094357772012-06-13T11:08:04.464-07:002012-06-13T11:08:04.464-07:00Nicely said... very well done... your father also ...Nicely said... very well done... your father also might have passed along the notion that self-disclosure is good for the soul.Michael J. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840859418177870381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544160750552722326.post-21559331980568596632012-06-13T09:11:37.683-07:002012-06-13T09:11:37.683-07:00Thanks for the description Randy. I was blessed wi...Thanks for the description Randy. I was blessed with a similar father, although he preferred Jim Beam to body building most of my growing up years. But he was a role model in that he stopped drinking and smoking "cold turkey" in the early 70s, just as I was getting hooked on those two crutches -- so that helped me to quit as well. <br /><br />But most important, he used to say after any bout of tears "I think I'd cry if I saw a bad weather forecast" --he never worried about being "manly" and that has been huge for me!John Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11077934049835388737noreply@blogger.com