I can’t help but remember my Dad in the digital story I composed while attending Joe Lambert’s Digital Storytelling workshop in 2007, 18 years ago. Joe guided me through construction of a video, building on a piece (“Garbed in Silver”) I’d written when I was 18 or 19 years old long before my Dad passed in 2006. There was only one story to tell at that time, and for a long while, I was unable to do anything else so profound was the shock of his passing. I’m grateful that I can look up now and not be struck dumb at the loss.

I am aware by how powerful, even now, my Dad’s words and service were. He died on 10/7/2006. A conversation with my daughter reminds me, today so many years later, what larger than life my father, who loved me so dearly, had on me. And, how often I fall short of his example. Yet, there’s hope for me, like there was for him. Like there is for all of us when life steps in to shape the clay, to make us better as we age.