# Re: River

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Posted by LeviLovR on June 30, 2020 at 13:41:49

In Reply to: River posted by Mark on June 30, 2020 at 01:34:46:

You are an awesome Dad! What a great thing to do!

I have so often wished that my Dad and I had been closer and shared more things. The sad truth is that we were at opposite poles as far as our interests were concerned and we could not have been more different. We loved each other, but I had one brother who was a carbon copy of my Dad and the two of them spent every possible moment together doing the things they both loved and enjoyed. When I was older and got my own home it was my Dad who came in and remodeled it, doing the all the carpentry work and building things, finally glad to get the opportunity to do something for me - especially since I was worthless at such things. He spent days working on the place.

He rarely spoke about his childhood, so I never got to learn about what he was like as a boy. I know from some old photos that he was a manager of his high school basketball team and that he played the drums in a band.

As far as WW goes I only saw my father go swimming one or two times when we went on picnics or spent a day at the lake. He usually preferred to be fishing - which I did not enjoy. He wore a bathing suit when swimming, which always seemed funny to me because he NEVER wore shorts, even on the hottest days of the year. My family knew I went to Mud Bowl every year to do a performance in the mud, but they learned about that quite by accident when a photo of me kissing a pig in the mud got picked up by the Associated Press and wound up on the front page of the newspaper. I couldn't hide that any more and my family actually thought it was hilarious and there were no negative comments. I would have loved to have been able to discuss my enjoyment of wet clothes with them, but it never happened. I do remember walking into my parents' house one day and my Dad was watching swamp buggy racing on tv. I could not imagine him watching such a thing, but he was clearly enjoying it. Often the buggies would be totally submerged in huge holes and the drivers, who were all fully clothed, would come up drenched and dripping with muddy water. The eventual winner of the event jumped into the muddy water at the end with the "Queen" who was wearing a white gown, tiara and sash. The quy was in jeans, boot and t shirt. A huge smile lit up my Dad's face when he saw that. I was totally stunned, but didn't say anything. Maybe he had some WW urges himself that he also kept secret. It was a very different era back then, people are much more receptive now.

I am so glad to hear about the many Dads out there who are letting their kids be who and what they are and are so receptive and share WW activities with them. It's wonderful. I do so hope that you and your son will share many more WW adventures together.

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