Happy Birthday Shar!!!

Hey Family,

First and foremost, Happy Birthday Shar!! I hope you had a great day. Like LaShawn I am getting into the swing of things at work. I really like it, I work with really funny people. Someone is always crackin' a joke.

Baseball, eh, I could take it or leave it. I am glad we have the Phillies doing so good, hopefully they will wrap it up the next two games. Football, I want everyone to know that I am not a Steelers fan! haha... My team is the Philadelphia Eagles all the way. But anyway what has my veins pumping lately is Penn State Football, they are doing so good! I wish I had some tickets to the games. WE ARE PENN STATE!!!

Nothing else really going on in my neighborhood. Middletown is just as slow as it has always been. 

I wanted to share something I wrote about Franklin Jr, my dad. I wrote this about a year ago last spring semester, in Engl 213 Poetry. I have written many things about my life and hopefully as I share you will be able to share things you have written about your life or just about whatever. 

you were a giant to the kids

in the neighborhood,

they used to joke you would hit your head

on the clouds.

memories when, with all your strength

you lifted your car into the sky.

and the day in the pool when you saved her life.

games like red light green light,

when you let us win.

those where the days I don’t remember.

late nights spent playing

football and racing track cars

laughing when you crashed

your laugh was a force

to be reckoned with

along with your anger

but I don’t remember much of that

mournful days spent reading letters you wrote for work

hearing your voice on the church choir cassette.

to the days of your demise

I wanted no other father

I learned about you through mom

she said you gave me advice,

when I was only six

it would be easier to go on without you

if these memories were my own

so I shed a lonely tear and wait

growing up with only memories

Love you all,

Justin