It's like a plague, these things they call questions. They are in their element now. Like as if it is the breeding season for them. And they breed like amoeba, they just divide themselves and double. Oh no they are worse than that. They are like multi- faceted amoeba whichever angle you look at it from it looks different. so giving birth to so many more questions. Oh thank God i used the word questions, amoeba makes it look like something living. Or maybe it is living, much like some kind of parasite that lives and grows on you. Yuck! Alison, how can you do that? Questions are troubling but they are needed. They kind off always got me in trouble at home. Everyone was (and is) like, 'Shut- up Alie! Don't ask stupid questions.' Believe me till this day my Momi says, 'Don't ask idiotic questions, just do as you are told.' Only Daddy is ready to answer my eternal questions. He loves to discuss things with me. But then at the end of the discussion i am with a list of books and articles that he recomends. And for ages after that he asks, "So did you read that article by...?". "No dad!". And then i have to listen, "You have to read these kind of things, it broadens your horizon."

I miss you Daddy! I miss all those talks. When i come back, i promise i will sit with you some more and listen to you. I will tell you all about my trip and all that i did here. I miss you everyday. I wish you could be here with me because there is so much that you would like to see. I want to show you the sun rising over the mountains, the leaves turing red. The frost that forms over the grass and every surface. Daddy, I want you to see the snow. I will take lots of pictures and tell you about it all. So much so that it will seem to you that you are here.

And everytime i see the plants and flowers i think of you, Daddy. I wish i could take some for you. Maybe i'll try and do that. I know you'll make them grow somehow. Oh and the houses. Oh Dad i want you to see them. I know you would love the wood- work. I can hear you sayin, 'Al come here, i want you to see this.' Daddy, i miss you. I wish you were here.