A Message from Dad?

You may be wondering what "Take It Smiling" means. Well, it's simple... it's a mantra.

After our father passed away, my sister and I sifted through box after box of his old slides. We came across one taken in the late 60's of a man standing with the help of crutches. This man grinned an enormous grin, as if to say that whatever he did to end up on those crutches was well worth it. Along the slide frame, our father had written, "Take it smiling."

As we mourned the death of our father, those words which were written in the 60's were just the right message received at just the right time.