A LIFE'S WORK

       I JUST READ THIS INTERESTING BOOK WITH THIS TITLE: 
     
A Life's Work   by Ben & Quinn Bradlee.

          I was thinking alot about the title of this book that i just finished reading and about this father that was so devoted to his son that had   a disability that effects every few thousand children but they do a tad better than Down Syndrome.  This father never gave up on his child.  He never made his son feel different even though he was. Its's about a bond between two guys. For them it was the woods. Ben the father said  " there is only two things that really matter in this life and its time spent together and love."   Not just during early years , teen yrs, or midlife years.  It takes a life's work!  When not working this father took his son into the Big wooded property that they owned and they worked , sometimes all day. They took down trees, cleared the land , everything you can imagine. They had bond fires and just enjoyed time together, sometimes not even saying a word but listening to nature.   Always working to improve their property, to make it better than they found it.  Quinn felt that he had aplace where he could go where he felt like somebody and useful.  The world can be a lonely place for a handicap child .  It was an amazing story of so much giving and making a young son feel that he had a place where he could go to,  where he could enjoy being himself.  The son said " when we are in the woods working together, its a totally different relationship, his father is not Ben the great editor and I am not Quinn the sick kid."  We all have labels ,  rich , poor, black, white, blond , brunette, and learning disabled is also a label.  In the woods,  nature does not care about my problems he said. .  He says i spent all of my childhood with my father.  He was my mentor , my idol. He taught me the secrets of the stars, the universe , all out in the woods. I want to be like my dad!