Dad: "At the right time, at the right place, the right person will present themselves"
Me: "That's what people keep telling me"
Dad: "So I'm not a big idiot. Good to know."
Me: "It's just hard to see the bigger picture from this angle"
Dad: "It is. But maybe the bigger picture is so big that you don't need to see it. Let it be. Hardest lesson I ever learned."

Had a beautiful heart to heart with good ol' dad tonight, standing at the kitchen counter, eating our tacos. Not one man will ever be able to captivate my heart like my dad does. I will never find in another man the kind of love I've found in my dad. I can only pray that, if I do decide to marry again, that that man will be at least half the man my father is. I was told once that I compared every man to my current ex-boyfriend of the time. I realize now that that is so juvenile and that while no man could ever measure up to my father and that I shouldn't compare, that if I were to compare men to anyone, it should be my father and my grandfather; the two strongest men I know. I can tell just how much my dad looks up to my papa and how much he strives to be like him and raise his family the way papa raised him. That's what I want. I want my next generation family to be as wonderful as the generation that raised me. God bless my family. Without them, I am nothing. They mean the world to me.