Q-Blog

My sister is now a year older! I have posted a photo of my parents in tribute to a great day! I have also posted a photo of two celebrities which bare some likeness—however they were not as successful as my parents…

I wonder-- I estimate my dad was three or four years younger than I am now. By then he had a couple of kids and a wife…I wonder if we would have been friends; I wonder if he would have liked me--who knows, we might have shared a cigarette maybe…or not. Notice his sense of fashion and his physique…He was once a young sprite—and he knows what he is talking about when he says things will change. I think that is why he likes hanging out with kids these days and making them run.

My mom was a bit older than my sister is now. She was a beauty–a fine, fragile lady and had two kids—and had to control us…I don’t have many memories of my childhood, but one was my mom telling me to quit pulling her hair. My sister has not succeeded in growing her hair that long, the picture is cropped, but the hair continues all the way to my mom’s legs…She cares a lot for anybody—if you ever need anyone to care about you—she’s the person to ask—and she’ll be genuine.

I look at these pictures quite a bit these days, and they help me to see that despite some weird things and hard times, my life so far has been good. My dad is a success filled with determination and resoluteness—the old pictures of his dad represent something very different than mine do. He did a lot to change that for me. My mom is one of the greatest ladies you’ll ever respect…She wouldn’t admit it to anyone but she is a powerful CEO…of Crow-Gonzales Inc. She hasn’t fired any of us yet, but her investment as a major shareholder has proven her commitment to quality…

On my birthday in March I was far from this sort of introspection…I think realizing that my sister isn’t a twelve years old is part of that. I should preface that with the fact that I am continually realizing that I’m not fourteen. These kinds of realizations bring it home to how much was invested into our lives. What a set of parents. We should all be so blessed to have cool, well dressed, fashionable parents.