Feb 15, 2015 • Over the past few years, so much has changed in Deepwell. I can’t believe it’s been six years since all of this began. While we’ve worked to make Deepwell the town that does care right, I’ve tried to be the man who cares right. I’ve cared wrong in the past and thought I had it all figured out afterward. Ruby’s Bequest has taught me so much more.
Throughout all of this, I’ve known that I’ve been avoiding a big caring issue in my own life. I knew I had to sit down with my father and talk about the future. My father lives up in Wisconsin, far from the rest of the family. I often wondered what we would do if something happened to him, but it wasn’t something we ever really talked about. Well, I finally bit the bullet. I sat him down and we talked. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and I don’t really know why I was ever avoiding it in the first place. All I really had to do was start the conversation and my dad rambled on and let me know everything he wanted. So here it is. Seventeen minutes of our heart-to-heart talk. (Can you take it?) 
Hopefully, it might help someone else get up the nerve to start the same conversation with their parents.
Isn’t it cool when something you dread doing turns out just fine?
It is great how your dad knows exactly what he wants and is not in any way reticent to tell you–that kind of frankness is great.
My favorite phrase is him saying he wants “to be left alone in peace and quiet without anybody.”
I know, I can’t believe I was dreading it so much!
I really expected a long, drawn-out argument. I was pleasantly surprised.
Wow, you inspire me! I know we need to do this with my parents but we just keep putting it off. Well, no time like the present!!
alexindeepwelland – Do it! And let us know how it goes!
Well done courageously tackling a tough conversation!
You’ve been an inspiration to our widdlebird Sophie, as well: she posted a story over at the Ruby’s Bequest site. Now myself, I had all the tough conversations with my family some years ago, man to man. Not doing that again, nuh unh.
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