{"id":1213,"date":"2006-11-18T18:01:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cat-cradle-spoon-etc\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T23:01:17","slug":"cat-cradle-spoon-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cat-cradle-spoon-etc","title":{"rendered":"Cat, cradle, spoon, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at lunch, I read some more of Kaddish<\/a>. The book doesn’t focus too heavily on the writer’s father — I mean, it’s not a Mitch Albom schmalzfest or anything — but it does get me thinking a lot about Dad and what went through during his heart surgery in spring 2005.<\/p>\n

I gave my dad a call after lunch, and we shot the breeze for a little while. He filled me in on the Premiership soccer package he gets on satellite, his cardiologist’s advice that he get a defibrillator installed, and how he’s getting his gutters cleaned for $70.<\/p>\n

I let him know about some of the goings-on at home. One piece of news that he didn’t know about was that Amy bought a new car. Dad lent us his 1993 Cherokee last spring; Amy drives it down to the bus stop and back each day, a 2-mile round trip and, while it’s not quite on its last legs, it is getting pretty old.<\/p>\n

“Now that she’s saved up,” I told Dad, “she’s getting a Mini Cooper S.”<\/p>\n

“That’s great!” he said. “How much did you get for the Cherokee?”<\/p>\n

“What? The Cherokee? . . . Pop, we didn’t sell your car.”<\/p>\n

And that’s when it struck me: my brother & I are going to have a tough time keeping a straight face reading that mourner’s kaddish someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at lunch, I read some more of Kaddish. The book doesn’t focus too heavily on the writer’s father — I mean, it’s not a Mitch Albom schmalzfest or anything — but it does get me thinking a lot about Dad and what went through during his heart surgery in spring 2005. I gave my … <\/p>\n

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