Hey, California Peggy:

[Redstone]

Here's one of the stories from the essay book that I've been promising to finish editing and send ot you.

I happened to have this one as a separate Word document, because that's the format that the magazine that published it wanted it in.

I'd have sent it via PM, but I'm not sure you can include attachments in a PM.

Go here:http://www.rileycomms.com/Inheritance.doc

Enjoy!

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow....

My own personal thread...from Redstone himself, no less...

I'll go check it out right now...

Thank you....

[Redstone]

2. Read it in a quiet place, at a quiet time.

It's that kind of essay.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I will do just that...

I did make a copy for my own personal use...I hope that's OK by you, my dear Redstone...

And right now in my study, it is quiet and my mind is at rest as well...

So I just might read it ....now......

I appreciate your writing efforts a great deal....

[Redstone]

4. I made it available so you could print it, of course.

You can make copies for others if you think they'd like it.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Words fail me, my dear Redstone...

Thank you..is all I can come up with right now...

:hug:

[Redstone]

6. I'll take that to mean that you liked it.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. And you can take it correctly, my dear Redstone....

The ending brought the prickle of tears to my eyes...

We MUST remember to tell the people we love that we love them...

When they are still around to hear it...I'm sure your dad knew it...

But how much better if he'd gotten to see your workshop, and the table saw, and most of all, the furniture you'd made...

But regrets are poisonous...so let them go..or channel them into your wonderful writing...as you do here, so effectively.

Thank you...and I am looking forward to the essays so very much..

:hug:

[Redstone]

8. We had a bad history most of the time;

I got hit an awful lot as a kid, mostly because I was so different from anyone he'd ever encountered, that he simply didn't know how to deal with me otherwise.

However, credit where it's due, he was the one who offered the olive branch by asking me to be his best man when he got remarried (I will tell you, it was like getting struck by lightning to hear him ask that).

So, for the last ten years or so that he was alive, we moved from the enmity of my childhood, through the uneasy truce we had for the early part of my adult life (which started the first and only time I hit him back; it only took once to get the message across), to having a reasonably good father / son relationship.

I feel fortunate in that, because an awful lot of people who don't get along with their parents as children never get to work the relationship out in the end as I did.

Whoa. I haven't told many people that. But now you know.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Redstone...

I am honored by your trust...thank you...

:loveya: