Sunday, June 15, 2008

Father's Day

I woke up this morning and watched a retrospective on Tim Russert (who died on Friday of a sudden heart attack). It focused a lot on his relationship with, and love for, his father, and it made me flash back to last year, 3 days before my wedding, when I thought we might lose my dad (from what, incidentally, turned out to be a stroke). Tonight I went to see Kung Fu Panda with my wife. Wow, what a film...top quality thru and thru! It starts off with an opening piece of animation which is just bananas, and it never lets up from there. Anyway, there's a nice father/son thing going on in the story. It's done so well (touching and heartfelt, without being sappy), and again it made me reflect. I'm really looking forward to seeing my pop tomorrow and taking him out for what I hope will be a delicious steak dinner.

Here's a piece I drew for my father-in-law this week. He owns a company called La Habra Fire Protection & Plumbing, and my wife thought he might like to hang it in his new office. I had a lot of fun doing it, so hopefully he'll dig it.