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July 5

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 5, 2026| 2 Comments »


 
 
Dad would lie on his back
in the middle of the living room.
I would step into his open palms
on either side of his shoulders
and slowly, he’d lift me into the air.
I loved the wavering, the bobble 
before the balance, the moments 
of freedom when I floated above him. 
Today, when the concert ended 
with “What a Wonderful World,” 
it was only in the last verse I realized 
they’d played Dad’s favorite song
on this day, his birthday, almost
five years after his death, and 
I felt it again, that sense of being 
elevated by a power greater than my own.
Tears falling even as I started
to laugh. Laughter rising even
as I started to cry. The gift of it all
swirling in me as ecstatic as the violins,
primal and playful as the drum beat, 
unexpected as the riffs on the piano, 
familiar as my dad’s hands wrapped
around my soles pressing me higher, 
oh wonderful world, higher.

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