Post by fmj on Jul 10, 2011 6:52:44 GMT -5
Hope you all bear with me on this one! I know this is a hunting and fishing board, but the old man was a BIG influence for me becoming the outdoorsman i am today!
13 years ago today, i got a call that would change my life. It was my older brother on the other end and all he said was "Dads crashing...GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!!" I hopped in the old '84 F-150 and started the mad +200 mile trip @ +100 mph back home.
I didnt make it in time. By the time i pulled up, the old man was dead.
I thought i would share some tunes that i will be listening to quite a bit today...along with of course Kansas "dust in the wind" and Dream Theaters "The spirit carries on"
Not exactly my genre of music. But it holds a wisdom we can all learn from! Dad and i never really got along too well....unless we were on one of our MANY hunting or fishing trips. One line is especially pointed for me. "I wasnt there that morning my father passed away...I didnt get to tell him all the things i had to say...I think i caught his spirit, later that same year, I'm sure i heard his echo in my babies new born tears"....my youngest son was born 355 days after dads death.
I personally shot this next tune the night of my eldest sons 21st B-day. The lead singer of Alter Bridge, Myles Kennedy, lost his mother to cancer. This song is written about that event in his life. Same way i lost my dad. If you watch and listen (or it might just be me) you can FEEL the emotion pouring out of his guitar during the instrumental. The opening line is very poignant to me...We had a weeping willow in our back yard growing up. "the willow it weeps today" and the line "The static of this cruel world cause some birds to fly long before they've seen their day". Dad was only 53.
"In loving Memory" - Alter Bridge
What turned out to be our last deer season together...
Just "hanging out" in camp in the one place we ALWAYS got along...the UP.
The eldest on the rope swing the old man hung in the afore mentioned willow...
"Getting schooled" The old man helping me out with my homework. 1st year of my sheet metal apprenticeship...Dad was a journeyman tinner as well.
Thanks for bearing with me. Its just gonna be "one of them days" for me. For those of you that still have your dad, CHERISH the moments you have, they ARE precious!!!
13 years ago today, i got a call that would change my life. It was my older brother on the other end and all he said was "Dads crashing...GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!!" I hopped in the old '84 F-150 and started the mad +200 mile trip @ +100 mph back home.
I didnt make it in time. By the time i pulled up, the old man was dead.
I thought i would share some tunes that i will be listening to quite a bit today...along with of course Kansas "dust in the wind" and Dream Theaters "The spirit carries on"
Not exactly my genre of music. But it holds a wisdom we can all learn from! Dad and i never really got along too well....unless we were on one of our MANY hunting or fishing trips. One line is especially pointed for me. "I wasnt there that morning my father passed away...I didnt get to tell him all the things i had to say...I think i caught his spirit, later that same year, I'm sure i heard his echo in my babies new born tears"....my youngest son was born 355 days after dads death.
I personally shot this next tune the night of my eldest sons 21st B-day. The lead singer of Alter Bridge, Myles Kennedy, lost his mother to cancer. This song is written about that event in his life. Same way i lost my dad. If you watch and listen (or it might just be me) you can FEEL the emotion pouring out of his guitar during the instrumental. The opening line is very poignant to me...We had a weeping willow in our back yard growing up. "the willow it weeps today" and the line "The static of this cruel world cause some birds to fly long before they've seen their day". Dad was only 53.
"In loving Memory" - Alter Bridge
What turned out to be our last deer season together...
Just "hanging out" in camp in the one place we ALWAYS got along...the UP.
The eldest on the rope swing the old man hung in the afore mentioned willow...
"Getting schooled" The old man helping me out with my homework. 1st year of my sheet metal apprenticeship...Dad was a journeyman tinner as well.
Thanks for bearing with me. Its just gonna be "one of them days" for me. For those of you that still have your dad, CHERISH the moments you have, they ARE precious!!!