Submissions by dang are relatively rare so that was the thing that piqued my interest as I was skimming the front page. I loved the article, it’s a true charact

Submissions by dang are relatively rare so that was the thing that piqued my interest as I was skimming the front page. I loved the article, it’s a true character sketch done in 3D, so to speak, and not reduced to how the person has passed was good, a la the classic eulogy format. The “warts and all” approach of portraying a steadfast person reminded me of Saul Bellow’s story “A Silver Dish”. I feel for the son’s frustration in the end about the inability to communicate with his father, to be understood and, perhaps, be appreciated by him; the gulf between their world views seems too large for that. My own father was a gambler and charmer, I’m as far removed from him as this Indian religion sage is to his Methodist schoolteacher father. Yet I still remember him because he helped make me, even if being an example of what not to be.