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smokey
smokey

@solari Really lovely piece, and I hope your dad does manage to take hold of his dream 🎣

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alongtheray

Thank you, @smokey! I do, too. How about you -- what dreams do you wish to take ahold of (or have)?

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oyam
oyam

@solari Good luck to your dad, I really hope he does do it. Life is too short to just keep wishing and dreaming!

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RobertFrench
RobertFrench

@solari that hits home in so many ways, but from a different prospective. Thanks for sharing

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alongtheray

Thank you, @oyam and @RobertFrench! Mayo, what is your dream? Robert, care to share the perspective you speak of?

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RobertFrench
RobertFrench

@solari my died when I was a Senior in High School. I often think about what he (we) missed. And if I will be around long enough to do all the things I want to do.

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alongtheray

I hear you, @RobertFrench. I looked at your blog, it looks like you're already doing a lot! Great idea to travel for breweries. It's the journey that counts, not the the destination...so as long as you're on the journey it's all that matters, time be damned. All the best!

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RobertFrench
RobertFrench

@solari so true, thank you!

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smokey
smokey

@solari About 5 years ago, I took my remaining, octogenarian grandfather on what will certainly be his last roadtrip—to Baltimore for my cousin’s wedding. What began as a simple “I’d like to spend some more time with my grandfather—and make sure he can be at my cousin’s wedding” turned into so much more and became so much more meaningful along the way, as he shared stories and we had adventures together.

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oyam
oyam

@smokey That sounds like an awesome trip!

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oyam
oyam

@solari I want to travel and explore (preferably off the beaten path) and in some ways I'm already doing it. Your post hits close to home because it's almost a year since my dad passed away and I still find or recall unfinished projects or things we were working on together.

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alongtheray

@smokey That's truly wonderful, am so glad you were able to share extra special memories together. Trips like these are great for opening things up, long talks, etc.

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alongtheray

@oyam It certainly feels like you're doing it, your photos are otherwordly and I wonder if you are channeling your father through them... They certainly have an ethereal feeling to them...

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smokey
smokey

@oyam It was. We also took a day trip down to Washington (he'd never been), showed him the World War II Memorial (and Korea, Vietnam, and Lincoln), drove past the main gates of Georgetown, and had lunch at the German restaurant (one of his grandmothers was German) a block up the street from where I used to live.

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smokey
smokey

@solari Yes, and it helped me convince him to write his life story for us. I have 20 or so handwritten pages, covering the first ~25 years of his life (up to the point at which my mom and aunt would know the major details, even if they didn't remember them personally).

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alongtheray

@smokey Hopefully you’ll share it someday. You have my curiosity piqued…

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