Reflections By The Bay

Friday, June 12, 2020

June 12, 2020

PICTURES ALL

AROUND THE ROOM

Pictures on the walls, on the shelves,

and on the little tables – all around the room ….

Each Thanksgiving, each time they came

back home, he silently noticed he still didn’t

make the hall of fame. Being the fifth of six

didn’t help – plus being a bit clumsy and

awkward – so bottom line, no pictures.

It became a family joke sort of – in his

family – and his kids made sure they had
plenty of pictures of dad in their house.

Now every story has a happy ending ….

Right? His second son was a high school

English teacher and had a son and he

dropped a note to his dad. “You made

it sort of. I was back east and my son’s

picture is on grandmother’s refrigerator.

I now have a new understanding of a

line in Shakespeare’s Second Sonnet:

'This fair child of mine shall sum my

count and make [up for your] old excuses.'”