Comments on: Happy Father’s Day!

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:52:16 +0000

I was fortunate to have strong, loving and gentle men in my life as a youth; Dad, Grandfather, a favorite Uncle. It is sad to realize that so many children today are missing that experience and mentoring. I know that it is not a new phenomenon, just an accelerating one. Mother, Grandmother, and various Aunts taught me how to be a civilized human by direction; the men taught me by example. They also taught me to suck it up when the occasion demanded.

By: arfldgr

arfldgr — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:54:13 +0000

Day before the father day weekend i was reviewd…
The excuse for the 13th year of why a person with aspergers and a stellar review, will NOT get a raise again.. and so, cant have childfren with his wife, and makes her depressed as he has one child with another woman.

this years offense?

that i didnt follow strunk and whites his and her, and did not violate the company policy, the post doc manual, and the presentation by the corporate lawyer firm that not using them can be a EEOC offense.

so yes… 13th year coming and no raise cause i follow company policy and each new guy they move me to every two years, will say you start new.

this has meant my son doesnt bother much, my wife is barren after ten years of trying, i am getting more nad more end it all mentality, and there is no help from autistm places, or anywhere. which really really doesnt help.

after all, i can lose raises and promotions by following company policy… hows that? and the rest of the review? well that comes after two years of exceeds expectaions, a customer service award, a 500 dollar stupend and a 5000 bonus cause iam such a bac worker.

after 12 years i am entry level in a 35 year career
they get expert level consulting work for basement prices and have exterminated my family..

happy fathers day to you all

all i ever wanted was to be a dad and have a home and a BBQ once in a while wiht family.

wont ever happen,
now i just wait ti die
us aspies should never be born the way they terat us, take from us, steal from us and blame us for it.

my art, inventions, designs, and such belong in the trash.. my life has been made a waste, despite bronx science, degrees and such…

happy fathers day

By: Llwddythlw

Llwddythlw — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:01:11 +0000

I didn’t really celebrate the day, although I did take the opportunity yesterday to write a long, “fatherly” e-mail to my son who just graduated from high school. Like Ed Bonderenka, I went to a restaurant which had many empty tables.

I always find it amusing that in German, the word for fatherhood is “Vaterschaft”. If you pronounce it correctly, it sounds a little bit like the after-effects of children who don’t appreciate your interest in their affairs.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:19:08 +0000

Tonight

I’m eating sardines
and crackers with mustard

salty and pungent protein
one of the few memories I have
of my father

God how he loved me

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:04:18 +0000

Here’s a hard, funny, beautiful poem about fatherhood by the greatest forgotten American poet and poetry editor.

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Step On His Head

Let’s step on daddy’s head shout
the children my dear children as
we walk in the country on a sunny

summer day my shadow bobs dark on
the road as we walk and they jump
on its head and my love of them

fills me all full of soft feelings
now I duck with my head so they’ll
miss when they jump they screech

with delight and I moan oh you’re
hurting you’re hurting me stop
they jump all the harder and love

fills the whole road but I see it run
on through the years and I know
how some day they must jump when

it won’t be this shadow but really
my head (as I stepped on my own
father’s head) it will hurt really

hurt and I wonder if then I will
have love enough will I have love
enough when it’s not just a game?

— James Laughlin

By: Frog

Frog — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:49:08 +0000

It is said (probably a long time ago) that the most long distance calls were placed on Mother’s Day, but the day with the most collect calls was Father’s Day.
But, hey! Got lots of calls and lots of love today.

By: Ed Bonderenka

Ed Bonderenka — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:29:03 +0000

Father’s day. My son took me to my favorite restaurant.
Plenty of tables.
Mother’s Day, you couldn’t get in.

By: Big Maq

Big Maq — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:36:18 +0000

Had breakfast today to greetings of “Happy Father’s Day!”.

My response: “Every day I get to start, by sharing breakfast with the ones I most want to be with, IS ‘Father’s Day!'”

Hope every father here has an equally happy day.