I'm Only One Call Away...

Original post January 17th, 2021 on WordPress

Jared and I made our usual weekend trip to Mankato yesterday. As we merged off new highway 14 towards the off-ramp to Janesville I found myself thinking of the last time I'd talked on the phone with my dad. It was September 2019. Jared and I had just walked around Clear Lake in Waseca and were on our way home. It was getting dark out. Dad called and we chatted for a while.

As I reminisced about that call and the sound of my dad's voice I said in my head to my dad "Miss you Pops! Love you!" My mind let go of the memories and I came back to the present. We'd just gone under the new 14 overpass and were merging onto old 14; heading east into town. The song that was playing on the radio as I'd been thinking about my dad ended and "I'm only one call away" by Charlie Puth started to play. Instantly my eyes welled and my throat tightened. This song is a song my brothers and I connect to our dad. It was the song played at his memorial service after my brother, Beau, and I delivered our eulogies. As I turned the dial to a different station to prevent a wave of emotion from overtaking me I silently thanked my dad for letting me know that he knew I was thinking of him <3.