Reflecting on Fatherly love...

[Jessenoah]

This was party inspired by another thread, and partly inspired by getting home from work to my Dad sick as a dog puking his guts out!

Not everyone is blessed enough to have a father in their life, let alone a GREAT father in their life. And I for one, feel like I have a great father! I'm not talking about the heavenly father we hear about in church, nor the Leave it to beaver TV style dad who takes his kid out fishing every weekend...

I am talking about my dad! The dad who commutes 100 miles one way to work, but always made sure to get home in time to tuck me in before I went to bed. The dad who has the greatest perverted sense of humor, but could also be excruciatingly truthful and honest so that I would always have a good guiding influence through my days. The guy who's eyes where so bad he couldnt see even on the most perfect of days, but still went out and caught my flaming fast baseball throws.

I love my dad very much, and he loves me and I am thankful for that!

Please feel free to share some of you's guys'es dad-related-joyfullness, just so that I feel less sissy! Macho tough guy's can talk about their fathers love without being sissy right?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6sSp6IY7c]A Catch With Dad - Field of Dreams - YouTube[/ame]

 

[lunchie]

I am happy happy happy to be the dada of this smiling baby girl.

 

[BuzzHaze]

My Dad passed in 87. We were very close. He played in a popular country band for over 20yrs. He taught me everything I needed to know to get started. I was 5yrs old when he got my first acoustic. He would tune it in open E and give me a slide. "You Are My Sunshine" was the first song he taught me.

I grew up jamming with him and by 8yrs old, he bought me my first electric and amp. I had that until I was 13-14 and then started working part time after school saving for a Gibson (which I still own) He was an amazing player and a very loving father. He never once raised and hand to us kids. He spoke softly but still had a firm hand on everything. I try to be like him but I doubt I'll ever stack that high haha.

I found a shot he took of me playing for my sisters with my 1st electric and amp. They are still my biggest fans



Anyway, I think about him all the time and now that I have a 5yr old Grandson named Ryder that I'm teaching to play, I think even more about him and wish he could have met Ryder, his Great Grandson. They are very similar and even look the same. I figured I would write and record a song about my Dad. It's the purest way for me to convey the way I felt about him and anytime I play the song, I feel as if he is there, in the room listening. He always told me not to worry as long as you give it your best.

All Your Best...

[SC]http://soundcloud.com/buzzhaze/allyourbest[/SC]

My Dad doing what he loved to do...jam with his son and drink a cold one :

 

[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

I'm not talking about the heavenly father we hear about in church

get this religious bullshit off the forum. it's directly against the forum rules.

 

[monkeyboy]

I have absolutely nothing nice to say about my father EXCEPT that I learned everything not to do when raising my own two children. Now my mother on the other hand. What a great woman she was.

 

[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

I have absolutely nothing nice to say about my father EXCEPT that I learned everything not to do when raising my own two children. Now my mother on the other hand. What a great woman she was.

same.

 

[So What]

get this religious bullshit off the forum. it's directly against the forum rules.

What a prick you are.

He wasn't talking about religion, just trying to focus on who he was talking about.

I'm sure he appreciates you shitting in his thread, as usual.

I feel sorry for you. You must have one fvcked up life, to be so insanely bitter.

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[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

What a prick you are.

He wasn't talking about religion, just trying to focus on who he was talking about.

I'm sure he appreciates you shitting in his thread, as usual.

I feel sorry for you. You must have one fvcked up life, to be so insanely bitter.

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or, it's insanely offensive to assume that everyone on this forum goes to church and/or follows a religion with some "heavenly father" character. you say "father", i know who you're talking about.

 

[monkeyboy]

What a prick you are.

He wasn't talking about religion, just trying to focus on who he was talking about.

I'm sure he appreciates you shitting in his thread, as usual.

I feel sorry for you. You must have one fvcked up life, to be so insanely bitter.

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Over your head it went. Implied the purple was.

 

[So What]

or, it's insanely offensive to assume that everyone on this forum goes to church and/or follows a religion with some "heavenly father" character. you say "father", i know who you're talking about.

Bullshit.

If you want people to be careful not to offend you, try not offending others on a regular basis.

You have junked up another thread with your childish comments, as usual.

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[So What]

Over your head it went. Implied the purple was.

Easy to get the joke, would be.

If not a constant prick, he be.



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[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

Bullshit.

If you want people to be careful not to offend you, try not offending others on a regular basis.

You have junked up another thread with your childish comments, as usual.

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i'm not offended, but i think it's pretty shitty to assume that everyone on here believes in the same magical sky being.

also, seems like you're the one junking it up by arguing for the sake of arguing. go eat your feelings some more.

 

[So What]

i'm not offended, but i think it's pretty shitty to assume that everyone on here believes in the same magical sky being.

also, seems like you're the one junking it up by arguing for the sake of arguing. go eat your feelings some more.

Just keep telling yourself that.

Threads already ruined, by you....as usual.

Mods are welcome to remove my comments and clean up the thread for Jessenoah. Not that they need my permission.

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[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

Just keep telling yourself that.

Threads already ruined, by you....as usual.

Mods are welcome to remove my comments and clean up the thread for Jessenoah. Not that they need my permission.

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will jessenoah get an infraction for the religious stuff? the board waits with baited breath.

sowhat?:
in keeping with the spirit of the thread, what's your dad like?

 

[Engel]

Where da popcorn?

 

[cybermgk]

My Father passed late in 2011, days before Thanksgiving.

He wasn't a perfect man. He had his faults. Both he and my mother suffered a bout of alcoholism. But, he sobered up by sure will power after the early death of my mother. Yet, he never let it impact his job, though it did impact our home life at the time. THough, even then it was on the only occasional weekend binges

He was the 6th of six siblings that lost his father when he was very young, and the family became wards of a particular religious institution.

He was a Veteran of the Korean War.

But, he taught me how to be a man, have a proper work effort. He worked harder than anyone I knew. He, a working class Postal Carrier, from immigrant parents saw 2 of his 3 children graduate college, earned a home for us.

He would never be demonstrative with his feelings, until late in life. But, his getting up at 4 a.m. working till 3:30-4 m-sat AND coaching my baseball, football teams after work, as well as household maintenance until he dropped at 9 p.m. told how he felt. As did his bragging around the Post Office when my first semester of College grades came in.



I miss you Dad.

 

[markbastable]

get this religious bullshit off the forum. it's directly against the forum rules.

Speaking as a radical atheist, I'd just like to say that I think this is ungracious and uncalled-for.

 

[Frettter]

get this religious bullshit off the forum. it's directly against the forum rules.

If you are free to state your disbelief, shouldn't others be free to state their beliefs?

 

[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

If you are free to state your disbelief, shouldn't others be free to state their beliefs?

i didn't state my disbelief. i simply pointed out a violation of forum rules. if you go to the main forums list you will see:

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General discussions not covered by other forums. No politics or religion.

that's kind of cut and dry, right?

 

[Pennyman]

Sooooo, anywayyyy.....


Dads.



I had an up-and-down relationship with my dad. He fought the bottle and there were numerous fights - never violent, just loud and blue if you take my meaning... Oh, I got the belt across my behind from time to time, but that was accepted back then.


He was big into fishing, but I wasn't. Yet one of my fondest memories of him was up in a lake in a crappy aluminum boat trolling for nothing when he let me take the motor and steer the boat around for a while. I was maybe... 10? 11? 12? I dunno.


He died when I was weeks from my 14th birthday. At the time I had mixed feelings, because it wasn't a happy household... I still feel guilty for those feelings...


He knew how to fix & build things, and I wish I had paid more attention.


There's lots more I could write here, but it's dredging up a little more than I feel comfortable dealing with just right now.