Father's Day and Summer Solstice
. . . Bad Combo! Insult to injury for Father's Day? Father’s Day and the summer solstice, on the same damn day! I wonder if there is a hidden message or meaning to this . . . "coincidence." Everyone knows that Father’s Day is the least important of all the made up holidays. Don't believe me? Then how come all the FD greeting cards say, "Dear Dad . . . Who Cares, XoXo?!” Also, you can count on one hand the number of times you see a kid waving and yelling “Hi dad” on tv, it’s always “Hi mom!” And that’s okay, that’s the way it should be, dads are meant to toil in familial obscurity. We can’t compete with a mother’s love so all we can do is try to compete with brute sincerity - and the occasional game of hoops or playing catch. A dad’s love may not make for clever Hallmark cards but that doesn’t make it any less real (just a little less obvious.) So we get this one day a year to pretend like we are an equal partner in the hearts of our family and what happens?