It is my father’s birthday today

[tree_]

Happy 47th birthday, dad

[Ello Sailor]

Christian Slater is only 47? Certified studdery.

HBD!

[Jorge]

Hah, hilarious that dad shares a birthday with my real-life dad. Happy birthday, dads

[dad]

Thanks, fellas!

Jorge, if your dad and I really do share a birthday, I hope he has a wonderful day!

[Anders]

Happy birthday to both! Two great men.

[wease]

Happy birthday dad. Hope you have a great one.

[JuanHamm]

Thanks, fellas!

Jorge, if your dad and I really do share a birthday, I hope he has a wonderful day!

You came in way too early with the thank you post, idiot.

[JuanHamm]

Also happy birthdad, day

I hope you have a great day and many more!

[tree_]

i am so ashamed of my father

[doug rr]

go broncos

[tree_]

Happy birthday dad

[Jorge]

Happy birthday to RM user dad as well as my own real-life dad whose birthday is also today

[tree_]

Happy birthday to RM user dad as well as my own real-life dad whose birthday is also today

uncanny

[wease]

Happy birthday dad! Hope you have a great one

[doug rr]

go broncos

[dad]

thanks, guys!

Happy Birthday to Jorge's dad!

[tree_]

did you get any presence?

[dad]

did you get any presence?

my wife gifted me a bag of coffee i like a lot.

[BurtReynolds]

Happy birthday to all dads everywhere

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.