Happy Father's Day

 

My favorite pictures of me and my dad, Sam.

The Jacques Cousteau seed was planted early.

This is why I fly hang gliders.

My grandfather was an authoritarian and disciplinarian, and yet my father is the very opposite. I asked my father and my aunt Nancy how Sam came to be so calm and gentle and loving and they both named their uncle Denton as their male role model, but they also traced Sam's personality and disposition to my grandmother Hazel and her sister Jewell and my great grandparents Charlie and Boombie.

We inherit not only neurosis and dysfunction from our ancestors, but also health and our capacity to love and nurture. The word husband used to mean more than "a married man;" it meant caretaker, cultivator, nurturer - a perfect description of my father.

I am blessed by my father.