Scratchpad of Thoughts — Robert Voegele

Something I have realized I don't want to say to someone that loses their dad, or anyone else, is the equivalent of, "I lost my dad. I know how you feel."...because I don't know how they feel. I know that it sucks and it hurts, but I don't know the levels of their relationship, their wiring, their connection, their frequencies, their limitations, their abilities, their said and unsaid, and the fullness of what their loss means to them.One person can lose a dollar, and it means more than the person that loses ten thousand dollars.A relationship is like a mold...

I would like to apologize now. I am probably about to say something that will make my family cringe. Not that I have anything planned that I believe is offensive, but if I inherited one thing from my dad, it is the fact that he constantly said things in public that would cause the rest of the family to look on in horror, and say, "Bob...you can't say that!"My dad was not one that gave a care when he felt something needed to be said.He had no politically correct meter whatsoever.To the point that I always said, if we ever...