I am filled with wonder as I look into your face seeing so much of myself reflected in your physical presence.
Never negating who you have become I am nonetheless stunned
By our commonality of purpose as you stretching your wings pass on to your daughter the best qualities forged by four generations.

I see your father’s emotional response to injustice followed by a fiery resolve to correct what you can at the level of your encounters.
I see so much of him in you.
Tenderness combined with strength and the whisper of self righteousness he possessed in his youth prior to his more mature spiritual growth.

I see you championing for the rights of the underdog especially when they are children and the elderly.
Most of all I see love rewarded as your dad and I in our winter years are blessed to witness your summer and your daughter’s spring.

Love is God, family and the promise of a new more humane generation to conserve and replenish the planet we call home.
And you my daughter are one step in that direction.