Love those Fishes!

Before we left, several people wrote cards and letters for Jake to open when he was missing home. We have been opening one a day which has been very nice. Today, as I went to select the card for the day, I found one for me entitled "The best Dad I know" Inside was this clip that I made me feel very nice from an article in AARP about being 50:

You’ve always been the rightest person in the room—so why did your boss just fire you? You were certain your parents made terrible mistakes raising you—now your own kids say you made the same errors (and they’re forwarding their therapy bills to you). You’ve led a charmed life—but suddenly you know what it’s like to live with depression…or cancer…or losing a spouse…or a sudden turn in fortune that’s left you wondering how to pay the bills.
By the time we pass the half-century mark, we’ve all withstood our share of slights, indignities, or outright suffering. Watched our self-image go up in flames. Played a starring role in our own TV version of When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
And maybe it’s lucky. Lucky because we’ve seen enough, felt enough, been self-aware enough to learn from our experiences. What we’ve learned is that all of us are inherently flawed and very, very vulnerable; that this, in part, is what it means to be human; and that—most important—we really are all in this together. It’s the reason we treat our fellow humans with a heavy dose of compassion and respect. Okay, so it’s taken a handful of decades and some life upheavals to figure this all out. That still puts us in the catbird seat, compared with people who have never learned it at all.
Love those Fishes. This card was from Eric "the Fish" Fish and his family. I will say to Ilene what I always say to her in public. I love that boy of yours!