Thanks for sharing this part of your life with us. I think your choice of how you are honoring his life is a terrific choice. I especially enjoyed seeing a picture of him from one of your last meals together. I can see why the restaurant is one of your favorites as well. His choice of food looks great, and I very much enjoy Japanese cuisine.
The work that your father did to help shed light on, (to borrow from Rothbard,) man, economy, and state, helps to give his readers a better understanding of how those three topics affect our daily lives, then and now. The work that you are doing to help extend his legacy to the people of Burbank with free copies of his books, and to your own readers here on your Substack. Thanks again for sharing.
I anticipate feeling regrets about my mother’s passing when it happens. I know that’s an odd thing to say. Looking at our relationship and my feelings, and my awkward and unsatisfying efforts to speak the truth to her, I recognize that some of what goes unsaid will look, in retrospect, like it shouldn’t have been so hard to say. And yet, I know that, where I am in my healing process, it is, at this time, as unsayable as if it were required to be expressed in a long-dead language spoken by a small tribe on the other side of the globe.
So whenever I read a story like this, from someone who WAS able to speak the words of her heart at the time when the recipient could hear them in this dimension, I feel both a touch of sadness and also a vicarious gratitude that, each time such a thing occurs, the world is a little bit healed and I, in my brokenness, am a beneficiary.
Thanks for sharing this part of your life with us. I think your choice of how you are honoring his life is a terrific choice. I especially enjoyed seeing a picture of him from one of your last meals together. I can see why the restaurant is one of your favorites as well. His choice of food looks great, and I very much enjoy Japanese cuisine.
The work that your father did to help shed light on, (to borrow from Rothbard,) man, economy, and state, helps to give his readers a better understanding of how those three topics affect our daily lives, then and now. The work that you are doing to help extend his legacy to the people of Burbank with free copies of his books, and to your own readers here on your Substack. Thanks again for sharing.
Theodore Lee
I anticipate feeling regrets about my mother’s passing when it happens. I know that’s an odd thing to say. Looking at our relationship and my feelings, and my awkward and unsatisfying efforts to speak the truth to her, I recognize that some of what goes unsaid will look, in retrospect, like it shouldn’t have been so hard to say. And yet, I know that, where I am in my healing process, it is, at this time, as unsayable as if it were required to be expressed in a long-dead language spoken by a small tribe on the other side of the globe.
So whenever I read a story like this, from someone who WAS able to speak the words of her heart at the time when the recipient could hear them in this dimension, I feel both a touch of sadness and also a vicarious gratitude that, each time such a thing occurs, the world is a little bit healed and I, in my brokenness, am a beneficiary.
Looks like a great book to get, but right now I'm backed up. (Got it on my Amazon wish list)
Thank you for the beautiful post. Few of us do everything perfectly, but many of us do the best we can. Belated Happy Birthday!