Happiness Is Served by Celebration

June 16, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

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A Father’s Day poem celebrating uncles:

Happiness is served by celebration,

As one could use reminders of one's worth.

Praised be days devoted to relation,

Preserving ties of friendship, love, and birth.

Yet uncles have no day, so this must do --

Father's Day, on which we recognize

All close male relatives, so, too,

They might see themselves through our eyes.

Here's to you, then, an uncle who plays well

Each well-considered role in which you're cast,

Restoring far more faith than you can tell --

'Tis the smallest gestures that will last.

So may you enjoy your destined part,

Devoted to the duties of the heart,

An uncle, near or distant, who remains

Yet one of those whose love a child sustains.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

June 16: Happiness Is Served by Celebration