History has always fascinated me so this year I became curious about the history of Father’s Day. When I was in college I switched majors many times. I started out as a physics major and ended up as a Math major. I love Math and history so I took almost as many history classes as Math.

Seems the first Father’s Day card was created 4,000 years ago by a young boy named Elmusu when he wished his Babylonian
father good health and a long life by carving the message on a clay tablet. In countries, where the Catholic Church has significant influence Father’s Day is often celebrated on St.
Joseph’s
Day (March 19).

As the story goes the idea for creating a day for children to honor their
fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman named Sonora Smart
Dodd, who had been raised by her father after her mother’s death thought of the idea while listening to a
Mother’s
Day sermon in 1909. Since her dad was born in June she organized a Father’s Day celebration on June 19th of 1910.

President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as
Father’s Day in 1924. In 1972 Father’s Day was established as a permanent
national
observance to be held on the third Sunday of
June by President Nixon.

Roses are a traditional Father’s Day flowers. Red
is worn for a living father and white if the father has died.

My father died last year so I guess this year it will be white roses for me. This week it will be a year since he passed. I miss him a lot. He lived with me for the last year of his life. Every morning he would walk past my office on his way to the bathroom, wave and wink at me.

Have a Happy Father’s Day and if your dad is still alive let him know how special he really is, after all without him you wouldn’t exist.

With love and aloha,
Susan

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Make Angels on
Your Shoulder part of your daily routine and share it with a
friend!