Tag: dad

  • #joy

    Things that bring us happiness these days tend to revolve around Kai. His name in Japanese means “The World”, so he’s our world after all. We’re happy all of the time because we have Kai. Happiness tends to be an enveloping state of mind. But there are little moments that happen throughout that are just…

  • Reason to try to smile

    My father doesn’t smile very often these days. It takes an effort because Parkinson’s makes control of your muscles, including the facial ones, difficult, and the sufferer becomes withdrawn and unsocial because of his inability to interact in the ways we normally do. Conversation is also a strain because of the difficulty in controlling the…