That's my job a tribute to my father

No matter how far things go Country music has never been a favorite of my father, but a song with a great message is something that he has always loved. "That's my job" by Conway Twitty is a song I fell in love with a couple years back. I thought for the longest time this was a song more to my mother, but as I continue to live its more and more my father.

I don't know much of his father, but I know of a few lessons. One tradition that goes without saying is a few pints at a local hole in the wall called Kenny's in Waukee. The love of hanging out with the old man at this spot is that it reminds me of our trip to Michigan because in a sense time doesn't matter rather the idea of knowing we have to make it home. These lesson I have learned from the top of the table to the great music heard from Ben2K. We lived dreams there talked through fears and nightmares there. I can't say the lesson were that of a good book, but the idea of having to know how to live in this life.

When I left Muscatine I knew that I had no idea what I was walking into. I was just determined to make it home. In the end through lies, deception, and fear I found myself lost with nothing, but what I had when I was growing up. Today I find myself now healing from brokeness. It's the idea most think I am crazy and a joke to do what I am doing, but I look towards a quote from Rocky 6.

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very rough, mean place... and no matter how tough you think you are, it'll always bring you to your knees and keep you there, permanently... if you let it. You or nobody ain't never gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit... it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. If you know what you're worth, go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit.

I remember finding that point where I changed where I stopped being me and doing what I do to improve the world around me. The point where I started living just to live having no purpose. The point where I get a finger pointed in my face and say your no good or that's not living right. The point to where if I had that attitude I had upon leaving Michigan that I would have broken the finger and smacked them for being dumb.

I have doubted myself, but now its time to be that man my father wants me to be. To feel my heart and feel strength even through pain. I know one point I will have to come up with something that says I Love You.

To my dad if your reading this it starts today.

I love you more than you will know
Zach