Happy Birthday Dad!!!

August 11, 1924, Louis Magallanes is born somewhere in a small town in Mexico. Wow, 1924... what a different time, different everything.

Happy Birthday Dad! On October it will have been 5 years since you went to be with our Heavenly Father. I can't wait to see you there. I miss you dearly and I wish that there were some things you could see, things I could tell you. Like the new windows at the house, you'd be proud of mom... Mine and Dori's new home... Barry Bonds hitting home run after home run. And you thought that other guy was good... what was his name? Mark McSomething? Oh yeah, since you left the Angels won a World Series. How about that? And they're still doing good.

Anyway, I wish I could see you tomorrow on your 80th birthday. I suppose that somehow your spirit will be with me because you are in all of us in a way. Mom misses you dad, we all miss you.

I Love You and Dori sends her Love!
Terry

Death is nothing at all

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away
Into the next room.I am I,
And you are you;
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way
Which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air
Of solemnity or sorrow.Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be
The household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect,
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all
That it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?I am waiting for you,
For an interval,
Somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.All is well.Henry Scott Holland1847 -1918