Dad’s birthday

 If you can read the grave stone, you’ll see that today is my Dad’s birthday.  So we paid a visit and brought flowers.

I thought to further honor Dad by bringing out a Latvian flag.  However, there was a breeze.

Dad’s doing fine

 

The flower we placed a number of weeks ago is still there.

We visit Dad

 Had to get my son out of the house.

Fourteen Years Ago

 

To mark the 14th anniversary of my father’s death, we visited his grave this evening.  We laid the flowers. I sprinkled some holy water on the stone.

Mom would have joined us but it was too hot.

Thursday 5:13 AM

 14 years ago this date, father died.

I’m going to Alexander today.

His anniversary is two days away

 On a whim, I decided to visit my father’s grave.

I noticed he died on May 28th.  I will have to make arrangements for the three of us to visit him that date which is two days from now.

View from King George School

 View from the second floor.

That tree obscuring the water tower is unfortunate.

Behind the blinds is the Brandon General Hospital where my father died.

Arnis Kaulins

 Hope Dad doesn’t mind if I pay my respects from the car.  Probably not a good idea to trudge through the snow.

Dad. I hope you’re in a better place.

Visited my Dad yesterday

 He is surrounded by snow.

Three Objects

 

My reading glasses, one of my rosary beads, and an old sweater.

My father can be seen wearing the sweater in this photo taken with me in the 1990s.  I ended up with the sweater when my father sent it to me in a care package which he sent to me in China.  The sweater is now back in Brandon. Over the past weekend, I found it in a tub of my brought back from China clothes.  I wore the sweater to mass yesterday.  It is still in good condition.

The reading glasses I bought at Dollarama:  cheap but useful.  This morning, I couldn’t find them. I scoured the house.  And it annoyed me to no end.  But I suddenly spotted them on the floor in my bedroom.  They had somehow go stuck on my person. Taking off the old sweater caused them to fall to the ground. Go figure.

The beads I got from a lady in my RCIA. After finally finding the glasses, I decided to pray the Rosary.  I thanked God a little for having found the glasses, but I realized as well that prayer is a good way to get away from my small petty issues and concentrate on what is ultimately more important: to transcend worldly concerns.

Visited my father

 Driving back from having driven my son to school, I decided to stop off and say hello to my Dad.  It’s the first time, I have taken a photo of his gravestone in morning shadows.  I stood in front of his grave and prayed the rosary.

Friday 4:29 PM Class

Dinner and then an online class.

Brandon General Hospital and the nearby Shoppers Drug Mart

 My father died here.

Tony and I were across the street here:

…when he died.

Bad timing that still haunts me,

Visited My Dad Today

 

No special reason to visit him today.  I had a car so I could drive to his grave because he was my Dad.

My father’s 94th Birthday