Last few years, for me, it's just been a phone call, to wish him well. He and Mom live 4,300 kms. away where rest of my siblings and their families live in Canada.
In the past when I lived in same city as they, we might have a dinner altogether some years, not every year. Usually huge, happy and rambuctious gathering.
and my father who is 79, does not have any respiratory nor any heart problems...yet. He actually tends to have low blood pressure.
He doesn't exercise ...just walks 15 min. or 1/2 hr.
He is a small boned guy ..which is probably where I got my bones structure. Taught himself to speak and write English while being breadwinner for 6 children. My mom always housewife.
He was a restaurant cook.
Yes, he is a model, working class immigrant father. He is highly respected among relatives, abit of a humble, soft-spoken pater familias. He sponsored several cousins individually, to immigrate to Canada.
A mediator, translator for his wife/my mother and their outspoken Canadian-born children.
He is hard act to beat. My mother is very lucky and she knows it ..she was a picture bride. She met her husband-to-be for the first time when she got off the plane from China in 1957.
If I ever dare think a cycling journey is tough, HIS journey was tougher than I could ever possibly dream.
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06-05-2008, 08:28 PM #12
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