Sunday June 16:  

Feeling Temporary About Myself:A Fathers’ Day Story in Three Objects

Willy Loman, the Salesman of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, was the flawed son of a father who abandoned him. His father’s absence made him feel, as he put it, “kind of
temporary about myself,” throughout the remainder of his life.
This won’t be a lecture about Willy Loman, however: Willy is
just one in a long line of sons abandoned by their fathers, a line
going back at least as far as Ishmael, Abraham’s oldest son.
I’m in line, too. A couple of years ago I talked about my own
experience with an absent father: how I last saw him when I
was twelve and a half, and how I learned of his death more
than 30 years later. On this Fathers’ Day, 2019, I’ll revisit the
same subject, this time with the help of three exhibits marked
for identification and submitted for your consideration.

Message:  Wallace Hoggatt
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