Call up Your Dad and Mom and Tell Them You Love Them. They Might Be Schocked

I loved my Dad and Mom and they loved me. I look back at over a half century and I can see the love over and over and over.

I can see it, I can feel it, but it's hard to hear it.

I guess we weren't a family that said 'I Love You' much. I'm not sure if its a generational thing or a Dutch thing or maybe just a family thing. I wonder if the 'World War II' generation just wasn't a vocal bunch. I know now they did the most incredible things, displayed the most incredible bravery (not only in the war, but on the homefront and during the Great Depression) and yet virtually never talked about it. They weren't the most outwardly emotional folks. It was a given that they loved me, they displayed it every day. They just didn't say it.

And so, neither did I.

And what I wouldn't give to look my dad and mom in the eye right now and just say 'I Love You'. Yep, right out loud. Chances are they'd be shocked. And then they'd say it back.

I confess, I'm not the world's biggest Kenny Chesney fan, but he's had some songs that ring true to me. For example, 'Don't Blink'. Yes sir, time does go by in 'A Blink', and as I look at my two 30-something kids, it seems like day before yesterday I was telling the little rugrats to be careful with those firecrackers! Now, they tell their own rugrats that.

I happened to bump into a Kenny Chesney song I hadn't heard before. It's from an album he released several years ago called 'Welcome To The Fishbowl' and its one of those that hit me right where music should. In the heart.

Give a look and listen to 'While He Still Knows Who I Am', and then tell your dad and mom that you love them.