Dear Dad
Dad, I’m missing you something fierce today. And gol dangit I want to tell you how the other day while walking in the paint section at Menards, I started crying when “Good Day Sunshine” came on because you liked The Beatles and it made me think of you, but it was anything but a good day. And sometimes I want to say I’m angry at you because you have no idea how hard it is watching my kids grieve losing you in this way and sometimes I can’t do anything to make them feel better and I don’t know what to say to them because nothing is going to bring you back. I want to tell you how every season of the year makes me think of you and particularly now when the leaves start changing color and the nights get colder. Because it meant time for you to start chopping wood and bringing it in for the wood stove. It makes me think of the picture you gave me of the maple in our front yard. I think of the conversation we had about how even though we’d lost huge portions of that tree in s