On Friday Hellaine Bell brought this framed photo of her father to the Quality of Life group meeting at Hannan House Senior Learning Center. She said the original was in very bad condition but she'd taken it to Walgreen's drugstore and they had restored it beautifully. I asked her when and where her father had been born. She said he was born in Georgia and she thinks it was in 1898. "We never know for sure," she went on to say, referring to how persons whose ancestors were slaves often lose their family history. The things I take for granted.

Happy Fathers Day to those of you who are fathers!