#dad things

After a couple of teaspoonfuls, he smacked his lips and his eyes lit up and he declared, “I like honey and lemon!” And it was some of the few clear words he spoke to me before he passed a couple of days later.

I mean, does anyone understand us the way we’d want them to? Hopefully, it’s towards a yes for the majority of the time with the people closest to us, particularly your family, but… it’s a pretty big ask, y’know? The stuff we all kinda hope to achieve.

I get that to a lot of folk on the outside we all might have a bit of… an interesting? family dynamic. The whole lot of us. But, well… it’s not really. I know people always have a bit of a chuckle when we say we’re really a very ordinary family, but we really are just that, who love each other a whole ton.

Yes, even @starman-john-tracy who often looks as though emotions are totally too bothersome to bother with. Him especially.

And that includes Dad. Y’know, there’s not really a playbook for ‘love of your life, mother of your children dies’ and then ‘eight year disappearance into space, presumed dead’ is there? We’re asking entirely human and fallible people trying to understand other entirely human and fallible people… and the best we can do is try and work it out, y’know? Nobody gets it right all the time.

Sure, maybe younger Gordon might’ve had other things to say, but current Gordon is… starting to understand a bit more. Two way street, y’know?

…

Anywaaaay, that was a ramble. So.

All that to say I still think he’s the very best of dads and always will. He’s my dad! What else do you think I was going to say? 🙂‍↔️