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Dad’s Big Adventure (an e-mail)
July 12, 2010 | In: Retirement Gifts
This is a story of my dad’s, sent to our family in e-mail, with pictures attached. I tried to keep it as clean, as possible, to preserve the context in which it was originally presented. The canoe was my dad’s retirement gift, to himself, and he loved to go out on various lakes in the area, whenever he had the opportunity.
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9 Responses to Dad’s Big Adventure (an e-mail)
oftenIGNORDnvr4goten
July 12th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
VERY beautiful. I like that you just let it be what it is, but your presentation was wonderful. Never stop missing him. *sniff sniff* *hugs*
spidergoblin
July 12th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
beautifully done.proud of you.
Furnifur
July 12th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
DZ, WOW is al I can say. That was wholly beautiful! Dad sounds lke a sweet sweet loving beautiful man and I hope he and My Dad are up there doing something fun together while watching us on the “Tube”
By the way meander is oddly enough my favorite word in the English dictionary. The pictures were unbelieveable! Poetic! Thx
dzlzrd
July 13th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Well, you, and dad, were my inspiration, so I do have to say thank you! I’m glad I made this. We’re not just making videos for ourselves, this is a new form of preserving family memories.
dzlzrd
July 13th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Thank you. The video actually tells two stories, and you did get the essence of the second story. I, too, hope that his journey was as peaceful as this story. I miss him so much.
dzlzrd
July 13th, 2010 at 1:53 am
San Diego. There were a few different lakes that he loved to take his canoe out on.
I can’t take a lot of credit for the video. The words, and pictures are his, I just set them to music.
sscol96
July 13th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Very Cool slideshow. I didn’t catch where that was at, but it almost reminds me of a couple of flood pains I have been to in Panama, and also around Equador.
Thanks for sharing,
Steve
soulpatrol2007
July 13th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Aww, that was so beautiful, I almost cried. He did have a very beautiful way of telling stories and those stories will live forever as well as his essence. I’m so sorry about this hard day, if there is anything I can do let me know. I hope his journey to heaven was as peaceful as what he describes in these passages. HE was a very handsome man. Much love and prayers to you!
UnrepentantMan
July 13th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Excellent. I failed to mention the importance of the little canoe in my vid, but you did it so much better anyway. Very cool!