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\"Harlan<\/a>You know how certain family members tell the same stories at every family gathering? And it’s all you can do to keep from rolling your eyes and drifting off into a carb-induced coma? This chapter from Lessons from My Father may give you a new perspective about the stories you’ve heard a hundred times…<\/p>\n

Mining the Past<\/em>
\nIt is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!<\/em>
\nJames 5: 3b<\/em><\/p>\n

I gazed at the black and white photograph in the ornate standing frame. \u201cJolene, that\u2019s your dad,\u201d Mom informed me.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, sir, Mom. That\u2019s a girl. Quit fooling.\u201d The picture of the wide-faced child with chin length blond curls confirmed my opinion. \u201cLook, Mom, she\u2019s wearing a ruffled shirt. That\u2019s not my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it is, Jolene. Look at the short pants. That has to be a boy. Girls only wore dresses back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, you\u2019re teasing. Cut it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling the truth. Take the picture and go ask your dad if you don\u2019t believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I grabbed the picture and headed for the kitchen where Dad and Clarence, our neighbor, were drinking coffee. \u201cDad,\u201d I budged in, interrupting their conversation with childish self-righteousness. \u201cLook at this picture.\u201d I was brimming with eight-year-old superiority. I knew I was about to prove my mother wrong. \u201cMom thinks this is a picture of you. She\u2019s crazy, huh?\u201d My eyes moved from the picture to his face, awaiting his agreement. \u201cThat\u2019s a picture of a girl, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

His eyes crinkled and his face contorted into a sheepish grin. \u201cWell, Jo-Jo, I hate to admit it, but this time your mother is right. That is me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was speechless as I looked from picture to person and back again. My thoughts were racing. Blond curls to straight brown hair…can\u2019t be. Ruffled shirt, RUFFLED SHIRT to plaid flannel…impossible. Smooth, white cheeks to blackish whiskers…no. And from short little pants to farmer trousers…no way.<\/em> I found my voice. \u201cDad, how could ya let your mom dress you like a sissy?\u201d<\/p>\n

He and Clarence swallowed their smiles. \u201cWell,\u201d he said, \u201cObviously, you didn\u2019t know my mother. She really wanted a girl.\u201d He didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n

I picked up the picture, not eager to return it to my mother, in whose presence I would be forced to eat crow. I headed down the hall. \u201cHey, Jo,\u201d Clarence yelled above my feet stomping down the hall, \u201cwhen you coming over to my yard with the salt shaker again? The robins are everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not coming ever again.\u201d Clarence had convinced me, a few years before, that if I sneaked up quietly behind the robins in his yard and sprinkled their tails with salt, I could catch one and take it home as a pet. I spent hours in his yard clumping along, shaking salt, to no avail. I gave him an afternoon of entertainment, my mother was rewarded with a child-free work time, my family received a handy little nugget of humiliation ammunition, but I went home empty-handed. I didn\u2019t appreciate this reminder of my legendary gullibility, for it forced me to eat robin along with the crow my mother would soon dish up. She knew I hated casseroles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell?\u201d Mom watched me bang the picture frame on the dresser. \u201cCareful, Jolene, that\u2019s an antique.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, what kind of woman was my grandma dressing a boy like THAT?\u201d I felt like spitting feathers.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a wonderful woman, Jolene, and your father was her only child. Shortly after that picture was taken, your grandpa had your dad\u2019s hair cut short, and he always looked like a boy after that. Someday, I\u2019ll find those pictures and show you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once she brought them out, I was entranced. I loved those pictures of my father with his parents. They all looked so happy, my father obviously the center of both his parents\u2019 worlds. Cyril and Fern stand proudly on either side of him, hands on his shoulders, touching him as if to see if he is really there, that this young life is truly their son. I looked at the pictures and wanted to know the stories behind them, information my mother couldn\u2019t supply.<\/p>\n

My father, normally so talkative and forthcoming about the past, was reticent about his childhood and his parents. He had lost them both in the last ten years, and now I wonder if his grief kept him from telling me his stories. He shared only a few silly tales about Virgil, his imaginary brother, and their adventures. With his parents dead and no siblings, the details of his childhood remained a mystery to me, with just a few snapshots to bring me clues. I was too young to realize that had I probed more deeply, I could have eased his grief and learned about his life while time remained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you thinking about, Dad?\u201d I whispered some years later. I had just come home from school and found him in the living room, staring at the wall again. His eyes were unfocused, his mouth slack as the thumbs of his clasped hands moved up and down, up and down, in hopeless motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, hello. What’d you say?\u201d<\/p>\n

I had jolted him out of his reverie, disorienting him slightly. \u201cJust wonderin\u2019 what you were thinkin\u2019,\u201d I tried again.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, nothin\u2019. Just rememberin\u2019 the time when Jim Christy and I…say, Jo, do you remember Jim?\u201d He was eager to tell me of his escapades, but I shook my head,<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019ve never heard of Jim, Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo? Well, he musta been before your time. Jim and I were showin\u2019 our heifers at the Story County Fair. You remember where the cattle barn is?\u201d<\/p>\n

I shook my head again. \u201cDad, I never lived in Nevada, remember?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGuess you\u2019re too young.\u201d Frustrated by my inability to join in his memory, he gave up on his story. \u201cAnyway, twasn\u2019t much.\u201d The eagerness drained out of his voice and trailed into nothingness as a gulf of time yawned between us.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK, well, guess I\u2019ll start supper.\u201d I retreated to the kitchen. As I backed away, I watched his shoulders slump, his eyes go blank, and his thumbs resume their useless movement. He left me sinking back into the dead memories that could bring to him comfort that I, a living child, could not provide. Wrapped up in my high school life, I couldn\u2019t comprehend the treasure he was hiding from me. I did not know that I should nod and listen and share in his memories until they became a part of mine.<\/p>\n

\u201cDad, I\u2019m home,\u201d I announced four years later, sticking my head into his bedroom. He lay there, motionless with his eyes closed, but he popped them opened as soon as I spoke. \u201cDo you need anything?\u201d<\/p>\n

He shook his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave a nice nap?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I wasn\u2019t asleep. I was thinking about…\u201d Here he stopped, and his face grew animated as memory flooded in and invigorated him. He snorted a laugh. \u201c…I was thinking about when Red Goblet and I…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Goblet!\u201d I exclaimed with all the superiority of a college co-ed. \u201cRed Goblet! Who\u2019d name a kid a something like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Red and I were playing football at Westmar, and…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking of Westmar, Dad, I would love to hear your story, but I gotta get ready for play practice in a little bit, and I have to finish my costume. See you.\u201d I kissed him on the head and walked into my present, and out of the past he offered to me. He closed his eyes and returned to the football field of his day dreams. The value of what he held was priceless, but I had no desire to hold it. My adulthood was just beginning, and I had no time to honor his.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarlan, Dad, hello,\u201d I entered his room at the nursing home. \u201cIt\u2019s me, Jolene.\u201d<\/p>\n

He looked at me impassively, not sure who I was. Nine years had not changed me as much as it had him, and still he could not connect my face with his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Jolene, your daughter, the second one.\u201d<\/p>\n

A smile lit his face. \u201cHi, Jole…\u201d His voice trailed off before he could say my name.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are you, Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFine, I\u2019m fine, I….\u201d His voice drained away, his train of thought broken.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s Allen, my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHi, Grandpa,\u201d he piped, standing on tiptoe to be seen above the rails of the bed. Grandpa\u2019s eyes wandered down to the source of the voice. Laughter filled his eyes as he looked at my child.<\/p>\n

\u201cDad, we\u2019ve been telling Allen how you used to judge cattle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen nodded and adjusted the cowboy hat perched on his round head. \u201cI wanna be a cowboy, Grandpa. See my boots?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dad\u2019s eyes grew bright, and I could see a memory stirring within him, carrying him to the past, firmly anchoring him there in a way the present could not. A lopsided grin puddled on his face, and he fixed his eyes upon mine.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you tell him how you first showed cattle? Tell him what it was like when you were a kid.\u201d Allen looked at his grandpa\u2019s face, eager to hear the story he\u2019d heard fragments of before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it was….Story County…maybe a….\u201d Dad stopped, thinking hard. \u201cIt was a…ba..b…\u201d He looked at Allen, startled, newly aware of his presence. Then he looked at me and drifted back into the confusing present. Then his thoughts sailed away from him before he could frame them into words. I could see in his frantic eyes that he couldn\u2019t remember what I had asked, couldn\u2019t remember what he was going to say, couldn\u2019t even remember who these strangers were beside his bed.<\/p>\n

Allen waited patiently in the small room as the battle to recover and share the past waged in my father\u2019s weary and injured brain. Dad closed his eyes, worn out by the task I had lain upon him. \u201cMommy, is Grandpa too tired? Does he need a nap before he tells me the story? Can we come back when he wakes up?\u201d<\/p>\n

I nodded and kissed my father\u2019s forehead. Then I took my son\u2019s hand in mine and left my father guarding his elusive treasure.<\/p>\n

Too late I realized the value of my father\u2019s past, how it needed to be passed on to my child. When I reached out to mine the wealth of memory within him, the door that had been so slowly closing inside of him clicked shut and locked me out.<\/p>\n

Neither of us knew where to find the key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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