Happy Father's Day!!!
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Today I am so very grateful to have kids and grand kids around me with two years of sobriety. This gift which has been so freely given to myself and others, supported here by loving, tolerant friends makes me feel very humble.
I will spend the day engaged with family - "wearing the day together, speaking in present tenses" (j mitchell) thankful for a clear head in the now where anything is possible.
Thanks for the thread Delilah!
I will spend the day engaged with family - "wearing the day together, speaking in present tenses" (j mitchell) thankful for a clear head in the now where anything is possible.
Thanks for the thread Delilah!
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Happy Father's Day to all Dads here on SR and for those who cannot be with their father but miss him. Also, hugs to all that feel sad or ambivalent about your father or his memory... 
For me, this is the first Father's Day without my beloved Dad alive. It is bittersweet because of course I miss him very much but an even stronger feeling is gratefulness for having had him as a father and for our relationship, a relationship that was not entirely given but both of us had worked for it during the ~20 years of my adult life, until the physical ending. I also now feel peace about him and his passing, which was not the case at all for a long time. I would love to visit his grave today but unfortunately can't since it is in a different country/continent. Being there for and with him during his last year of life was, and will always be, one of my greatest sober achievements.
I got a beautiful pot of tropical plants (plants were his passion) and a candle to burn today, to connect with him in memory.
Thanks for the thread
For me, this is the first Father's Day without my beloved Dad alive. It is bittersweet because of course I miss him very much but an even stronger feeling is gratefulness for having had him as a father and for our relationship, a relationship that was not entirely given but both of us had worked for it during the ~20 years of my adult life, until the physical ending. I also now feel peace about him and his passing, which was not the case at all for a long time. I would love to visit his grave today but unfortunately can't since it is in a different country/continent. Being there for and with him during his last year of life was, and will always be, one of my greatest sober achievements.
I got a beautiful pot of tropical plants (plants were his passion) and a candle to burn today, to connect with him in memory.
Thanks for the thread
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Thanks, Delilah, for this thread.
Happy Fathers Day to the wonderful guys of SR!
This special day was celebrated last week in Great Britain and, I think, Ireland, so tip of the hat to those gents, too.
(((Aellyce))) I thought of you earlier today as we've shared a lot about losing our fathers. For all who are memorializing their fathers on this day, I hope that you are comforted by warm recollections.
Happy Fathers Day to the wonderful guys of SR!
This special day was celebrated last week in Great Britain and, I think, Ireland, so tip of the hat to those gents, too.
(((Aellyce))) I thought of you earlier today as we've shared a lot about losing our fathers. For all who are memorializing their fathers on this day, I hope that you are comforted by warm recollections.
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I never learned to ride a bike from from my parents. They bought a bike for me and tried to teach me, to no avail. The bike rot in our yard.
I learned to ride a bike with my teen friends, later.
I also learned to connect with my parents, later
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