by Pa Rock
Proud Papa
My youngest off-spring, Tim Macy, is forty-six years old today. He was born on a beautiful Sunday morning in Mountain View, Missouri, about twenty miles from where I currently live. September 23rd of 1979 was the first day of fall, and I remember it as feeling like fall, a beautiful change of season, and a wonderful addition to our family - all happening at once!
Tim and his family currently live in the Kansas suburbs of Kansas City, a long and boring drive from south-central Missouri, but one Rosie and I try to make as often as we can. Their house is Rosie's second home. She has stayed with the Kansas' Macys numerous times while I have been on trips out of the area, and Tim's family, especially his wonderful wife, Erin, always manages to spoil my little companion while I am away. Rosie loves it there!
Tim and Erin are two of the hardest working people I know, and their children, Olive (13) and Sully (9), put the buzz in busy!
My youngest is a successful screenwriter (something I have mentioned in this space way too many times!) who has had two of his works make into feature-length films that have run on multiple national streaming services. During his days as a graduate student at the University of Kansas while pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts, several of Tim's plays were produced on the university stages, and one was a finalist in a national competition and was produced at the Kennedy Center In Washington, DC.
Tim's writing has given me many good excuses for travel over the years. Not only was I at the Kennedy Center to watch his play, "The Attack of the Asians," a few years after that I was sitting proudly in the second row when his first movie, "The Brass Teapot," premiered at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival in Canada. I was also in Indianapolis several years later when his second movie, "Lost Child" (which was filmed in and around West Plains, MO) premiered at the Heartland Film Festival. Last year I travelled to Chicago and New York City to see his work performed on stage in those two vibrant, bustling, and exceedingly safe cities - and next spring I hope to make it to the beautiful Maine coast to see more of Tim's work performed on stage.
Does it sound like Pa Rock is shamelessly proud? Well, it should, because I am!
Happy birthday, Tim, I hope you are having a wonderful day!
3 comments:
Great post.
You’re always in attendance for the big moments. (And the mundane). Your loyalty to your people is something i admire most about you. Also, thank you for giving me my Tim. I love you. -erin
Thank you for letting me know about the occasion. I actually remembered Tim’s birthday thanks to the reminder but refrained as always from saying anything about it to the person except that I thought about you and how things are going with you with the political and social situations as we observe at the moment as they are.
I am happy to have read this, learning you are well and traveling to see Tim’s works produced on various occasions and places. I hope Tim and his family are all happy too to be able to spend time with you now and then.
As for myself, the summer break has ended, and besides uni classes, I now also teach would-be-diplomats to be dispatched to our embassies abroad at a training centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of my country.
I am also intent on buying a new, smaller apartment house in a surburb of Tokyo and have been room hunting from my current one in the middle of Tokyo. This is to prepare myself for my days after retirement.
I thought about going back to my hometown of Nagoya or moving to an unknown rural town but finally decided within greater Tokyo metropolis so that I can still associate with the friends I now have and stay active.
My official retirement age is 70, so it’s still nearly 10 years away but I can choose to retire at 65 or anytime I choose to.
I am now thinking what I want to do after that. I’m now receiving rehabilitation treatments for a tear in my right shoulder rotator cuff I suffered last June. I haven’t received an operation so I will see how much I will recover without it.
Well, members of the Macy family and Rocky, please continue to stay well and safe and prosper.
I wish I had more time to read your writing.
Mineko
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