If this were my Dad, he would be smoking a corncob pipe. It doesn’t look anything like him, but it ‘feels’ like him. Photo by Jaku Arias on Unsplash

DAD

Memories of the imperfect man who taught me

He was a good man.
Intellectual, Socialist, Dreamer.
Dad was a caring man but,
he could be stubborn and willful.

He hitchhiked from a small farm in New York state to New Mexico when he was 19 (about 1935) because he’d seen pictures and thought it looked beautiful. He made that trip…