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.
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.'”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020