{my dad}

High School Graduation

You can never really

live anyone else's life,

not even your child's.

The influence you exert

is through your own life,

and what you've become yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt -

Picking cherries - 1997

After Apple Picking

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree.

Toward heaven still.

And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn't pick upon some bough

But I am done with apple-picking now.

- Robert Frost -