Father's Reflections

   Another school year has come to an end and many changes lay ahead next fall. We went to Cam's grad party last Saturday in Zeeland. Greg and Debbie mentioned how I had turned them on to music when they used to come over to my parents, Uncle Albert and chemicals. My own sons have been critiquing me as a father for the better and worse. I know I made mistakes but also let them make their own, though I may have expected too much or too little of them at times. Jane and I were at the cemetery Memorial weekend and cleaned graves,between the Bozzos. We also went to a Lugnut game courtesy of Cooley Law and Lou Ann Hall. We also watched Brandon graduate from Eastern last Sunday at the Lansing Center and will go to his party tomorrow. I am now an extraordinary minister at St. Gerards after my hiatus after Holy Cross closed. A classmate Jerry Bryant died June 2 in Ohio. It had been 12 years since I last talked with him at Holy Cross just after he had retired from GM. Reflections shine, dim and pass noticed or forgotten exposing glances of lives timely spent. Words only scratch at the surface of what lies underneath layers of thoughts unwritten. Lukas has finally went to work at MSU working in the dorms for the summer. He gets to work at 6:00 in the morning until 3:00 and Phillip is unpaid interning at Christman's and and paying for the school credits to do it. So I'll spend time chauffeuring them to work an early morning rising.