Greydawn:

A wonderful and moving tribute to your dad! Every father should be so lucky to be thusly remembered by a son.

Your prose is very reminiscent of one of my favorites from Robert Louis Stevenson, a descendant of the Scottish lighthouse-building family and the famous author who is buried in Hawaii:

Under the wide and starry sky
dig my grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
and I lay me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies where he longed to be,
home is the sailor, home from the sea,
and the hunter home from the hill."

I think your dad would be proud.



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Bob Steinbrunn
Nautical Research Guild