Fathers Day
Hey Everybody, I wanted to pause are regularly
scheduled blogs to say Happy Father’s Day! I’m hoping I don’t catch anyone by
surprise when I say this Sunday, June 23 is Father’s day. Every June there are
sales in camping, fishing, and grilling, which while great for the outdoorsy types,
is not what this day is about. Father’s day is about the lessons we are taught
by our father figures while doing these outdoor actives and within our
day-to-day lives. Fathers play a crucial role in every child’s life, whether as
an asset or otherwise. We look to our fathers to show us how to be in the world
and what to accept from it.
My dad was the first person (I recall) shutting down societal
beauty standards for me and sowing the seeds of feminism in my life. We went canoeing
when I was in my early teens and I was so worried because I had forgotten to
shave my legs. I can still hear his voice echoing in my head when he said “That
does not make you any less of a women”. As children we are so impressionable,
if this conversation went a different way who’s to say how long it would have
taken for me to come around to that on my own.
I am also lucky this year to be celebrating my own
baby’s father. If there was a real father of the year award he would win. He has
been amazing with this transition into parenthood.
Father figures are not just biological dads, they can
be uncles, grandpas, close family friends, step-dads, even your mom or internet
figures like ‘Dad, how do I?’. Don’t get trapped in the idea that we can only
celebrate one individual, this is a celebration of all our fatherly figures. I
want to remind all of the young and future fathers that life is made in these
moments. I also want to thank all dads and father figures that have been
engaged and involved in their children’s lives. Including thanking my own. I am
more thankful for him then words can describe. So go out there and thank the
people in your lives that are father figures to you!
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