Father's Day - June 21, 2009
Any man can be a Father ... but it takes someone special to be a DADDY
Honoring Your Dad
Fathers are the cornerstone of the Family. So, we set aside one day out of the year to honor our fathers, in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities.
In the United States the first June Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, WA. Father's Day had Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan, President Woodrow Wilson, but President Calvin Coolidge is the one who recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. Not until 1966 did President Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Cornerstone Emporium has a variety of gifts for Father's Day, Birthdays, Christmas or anyday.
"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season". -- Unknown
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
"Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." -- Exodus 20:12
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby
"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan." -- Garrison Keillor
Don't forget to tell someone your Dad - "I Love You". It will make his day.
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