June 19, 2005
FOR MY FATHER on FATHER'S DAY:
i consider a father to be like a tree 
tonight i dedicate these simple thoughts and pictures from today
to you, my father...
and to all Father's Everywhere.
becoming and remaining a Skillful Father is in-Deed
the ultimate expression of a Peaceful Warrior; dedicated, strong, faithful,
reliable, versatile, and wise.
i bow to skillful, responsible Father's everywhere.
especially my own.
love you, dad.
get up here quick.
you and i have some fish to catch!
your son, steve
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The Father Warrior Journey
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by a son named steve
i consider a father to be like a tree
a tree who stands proud each day
well rooted regardless of the
dry, dusty, unknown trail often stretched before him.
i consider a father to be like a tree
whose bark may be thick and deep
yet wears much deep loved rolled up his
wrinkled, dirty work sleeve.
i consider a father to be like a tree
whose screams for attention is a silence
that responds to motion,
like wind acquired from heaven's breath.
i consider a father to be like a tree
whose roots drink the plains of summer grasses,
whose sap is the pure stream of mountain waters,
and whose limbs bear the balance of scattered rainbow colors
and the burden of snow.
i consider the Teachings of my father to me to be like a tree
above which a thunderhead gives momentum
to the immensity of clouds and sky
yet i can relax and know that my path is before me,
for the Presence of my Father Spirit is the remembering
that an endless breeze comes from behind me,
as if to push me forward in my own Father's Journey
and sense the presence of doing
that which I cannot see.
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Toweh,
White Corn Boy
son of Henry George Ilg, III