Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「"My dad and I are morning people. If you asked him why, he’d tell you it’s a habit from his military days. If you asked me why, I’d tell you it’s a habit from childhood," writes HuffPost guest writer Delaney Strunk.⁠ ⁠ "The mornings were our time before any of the responsibilities of being a husband and father could stress my dad out. I saw those few precious hours before the rest of the house stirred as my chance to actually connect with him, which often meant blasting Jimmy Buffett in the Black Pearl ― our family’s minivan ― as we drove the back roads between our house and the hardware store."⁠ ⁠ "My dad, like his dad, isn’t big into talking about feelings, so I tried to decode his thoughts through the Buffett songs he chose to play on our drives, as if some secret message to me was hidden in the lyrics."⁠ ⁠ "Whenever I was having a rough time with bullies at school, he’d play songs like 'Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On' and 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,' as if to tell me not to wallow and that this, too, shall pass."⁠ ⁠ "The best mornings were the ones when he’d play 'Delaney Talks to Statues,' the song I’m partially named after. When my mom pitched it to my dad, he immediately threw on Buffett’s song, which Buffett had written for his own daughter, Sarah Delaney. ... Whenever my dad played that song, it felt like his way of saying 'I love you.'"⁠ ⁠ "The worst mornings were the gloomy drives to the airport before he would fly back to Afghanistan. During these hourlong drives, he’d put on songs from Buffett’s 'A1A' album like 'A Pirate Looks At Forty' and 'Tin Cup Chalice,' and I’d sit silently screaming for him to tell me what was going on in his head." ⁠ ⁠ "Was he mourning the life he never got to live because he enlisted in the military directly out of high school? Did he want to leave everything behind, including us, and flee to some far-off shore? Or was he simply daydreaming to escape reality?"⁠ ⁠ Read the full essay at our link in bio. // 📷 Getty Images; Courtesy of Delaney Strunk」9月6日 7時03分