I hope your Dad pulls through and makes a recovery, Andrea and David. He seems like a wonderful and brilliant guy that has led a life of very meaningful lessons. It seems to me that you have absorbed much of this in the time you have spent with him and I'm sure it has shaped you in ways only you can calculate. I wonder if you would have wrote and created something like Triage without having lived with your father, David. You both seem like great people and it seems to me you must have got a big assist in that direction through your parents. I remember you were getting together with your Dad back in June, I think, and I hope that gave you all a chance to enjoy each others company. Your father is the kind of guy I would have loved to have a chance to listen to and learn from. Through what you have posted about him and his writing, he seems the kind of guy our world needs.

My Dad turned 70 this year, the same year I turned 40. Every time I see my father these days I love the time I get to spend with him. In some ways it helps me recharge my batteries because he is still so passionate about the world and politics. We have great talks that really help me keep things in perspective. Reading the paper can wear me down these days and I think it's a terrible thing to give in to that. I would not be the person that I am if I had not absorbed the lessons of my father. Many of those lessons did not require words. My grandfather too, I learned so much from these men that there should be songs about them. Songs to celebrate them and what they gave back to the world. I have not wrote a song about my Dad but last Thanksgiving I did play him a song that I only bothered to learn to play because he liked it. The song was Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and my brother sang it with me. My Dad loved it. I'm sure your father will love the song you wrote for him and of all the things you do and songs you write, this one will be one you'll hang on to. Here's to our Dads and songs for our fathers. Thanks for writing one.