My Dad and Mark Twain

In a recent text convo with a friend, I wrote this —

My dad (who died at 48, just before my Senior year in high school), regularly quoted to me a line attributed to Mark Twain: “When I was 13, my father was an idiot. It’s amazing how smart he got by the time I was 21.” Yup.

— I never got to tell him.

(Cue up the play, I Never Sang for My Father, right?)

There’s a lot nobody told us.

Or maybe I wasn’t listening.

To stuff like, “‘Honor your father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise — ‘so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.'” (Ephesians 6:2 + 3)

But wait! There’s more! Hope to see you back here tomorrow.