Remember Daddy

May 12, 2007 in Uncategorized

Twenty-seven years ago today, Daddy died. It was a death too young, at 53. As I move each day closer to that age, I realize with increasing clarity just how young it really was.

Besides the loss, obvious though that is to any of us who have suffered the death of someone we love, the worse thing about someone so important dying is the very idea – the very chilling incomprehensible thought – that people will forget them. By telling his stories, and passing them along to Emma and Tess – and to you – he lives on. That’s my job. It is all we have besides small luggage tags with his handwriting, photographs, a red corduroy shirt, his Mickey Mouse watch. Let’s pass stories along, shall we?

I hope that if you can today, you’ll read a little about him and remember him, as I do daily.

Last year this time, on the very anniversary of his death, something special happened.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

2 comments to " Remember Daddy "


inlandempiregirl

May 15, 2007 AT 2:47AM

The day my dad died ten years ago is coming up. Every day something happens that I wish I could ask him a question, talk to him, or share a laugh. Nice post.

Legacy Matters

May 20, 2007 AT 1:09PM

Remembering Daddy

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