DocAndersen
Today like any day is a journey. For the family history project, it is a stop, a reveal of images from yesterday. Today as is the rules of the project, I am sharing digital pictures taken by my father. These images are of events and things that I wasn’t involved in. By the time my father retired from the University, and my mother retired from work, we were living the life of chasing twins and my daughter. We had our lives that had become what we knew. There are so many pictures of events at my parent’s house, as our family got to together for many different events. But the day to day reality of growing families also created a need for those special events. We had lives that existed separately.
My parents loved to travel. I won’t pretend to guess where these images are from. Mom and dad traveled all over the world. We, my sister’s mother and I traveled with him when he moved to Thailand. We all lived in that wonderful country, and from that, I have memories I will never lose. But after Thailand, dad continued to travel. Mom went with him when she could, but there were many trips dad took that was just him. He had a chance, as an educator to help make the world a better place for young people and he took that chance. He spent time in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia helping design Science Education systems to benefit and help young people. He loved teachers – and he loved teaching.
As we wander some of mom and dad’s travels, some of the pictures that got me started taking pictures come from my father. There was a time when I couldn’t write about the impact of my father on my life without being sad for the entire day. Songs that came on the radio that reminded me of moments from my dad. I still have the moments when someone says something Dad used to say, or I hear songs of the period I remember him in. Talk of NASA, science or weather stuff reminds me of my father. As I said it used to make me sad, now I remember all the wonderful things my parents did for me, and try to do the same for my children!
Great post! Nice picture!
Thanks as always! Those are my father’s pictures and I am not sure where they really are from…
Thanks – he was a much better photographer than I will ever be