Jim Milne, 1942

It is Father’s Day today, and my Father is 5 years gone from this world.  He lived to a ripe old age of 96 and except for the last, he was lucid and humorous to the end.

He was not the type of Dad to pass on wise, fatherly advice… he was by nature, a quiet man.   Athletic as all get-out, he was a huge baseball fan.  When they say baseball is the thinking man’s sport, my father was the thinking man:  “Every pitch means something.” 

A conversation about life choices once led him to use baseball as an analogy.  He said sports casters frequently make the mistake of saying a solo homer would have been a two run homer if the previous batter hadn’t been thrown out trying to steal second base.  I didn’t get it why saying so was a mistake.  His answer was, “If you change the circumstances, you change the outcome.” 

If the runner had stolen second base successfully, the pitcher would have thrown a different pitch to the current batter.  The home run may or may not have occurred.  A different pitch would cause a different outcome.

Today’s photo is of my Father holding his first born daughter.

The circumstances are Chapter 7, Scene Three has been posted.  The outcome is at www.contentmentisforcows.com, hit the yellow, ‘the latest’ button.

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