Father's Day 2012: Carlos M. Cox 1933 - 2008

It is Father's Day again and I ponder my relationship with my father. Gone now these last four years and many is the time I have thought to call and consult him, just to sadly remember; he's no longer there.

But, I can still smile remembering how he loved me to his last days.

Thanks Daddy.

My father raised me with a stern front. He was firm but fair. I am a better man for being his son.

By his bare logic and his stark truths I give him the credit for the following in my life:

I have never been in jail.

I have never been sued.

I owe no man anything.

I have earned my way and never collected unemployment or a government check.

I give my word sparingly; break it and it is forever flawed. 

I've always paid my taxes.

I have never struck a woman.

Nor have I ever cheated on my spouse.

A handshake is as good as a signature.

I vote.

There is more but this gets the point across I hope.

My father the Reverend Carlos Monroe Cox 1933 - 2008

I will forever miss the man, my Dad.

More of what kind of a man my father was:
Dad's Desperate Wisdom
A true short story I've written about my father and how he saved his family from a terrible fate.