Your birthday is still a very special, memorable day to me and always shall be. I remember being a kid thinking how terrible for you to have to babysit the tree trimmers tidying up some of the heavier branches on one of our old 300 year old oaks. Now as an adult I look back to know you so well and how you would love nothing more than getting something important completed whenever it could be, even if it happened to be on your birthday. This year on a whim I was thinking how much you and I enjoyed seeing the 2000 "Gone in 60 Seconds" movie on one of our Friday night adventures I so looked forward to in my high school days all week long. I was about 14 at the time and that's definitively when I decided I had to have a muscle car, which of course would soon enough be my beloved '74 Charger SE we always had so much fun doing car stuff with. Well, I had no idea there was an original version of this same movie from 1974. I am so glad I chose to watch it on your birthday because the very specific references to your life were so uncanny to me and so comforting to experience. The 1850 address visible in the background, the Long Beach references where you were born, the prestigious Villa Riviera Hotel where your Dad (Joe Felt) had his florist shop (and where you told me you got to run around in the basement as a child and see the mighty wheel rollers the structure was built on & the cheeky chef who kept stacking pancakes on your plate all the way up to your nose just to see how wide your eyes would get), the Ocean Blvd. scenes where your Mother (Wilhelmina Vieregg) lived before marrying, and of course the very specific appearance of the Stutz Blackhawk which immediately had me jumping and pointing how you owned that car and how it had belonged to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia but he sold it because it got wet! It was as if you were right there in your living room watching with me and exactly what I needed on your birthday. I hold your memories close, as my own. I love you Dad.🌹

One of so many idyllic days I got to spend with my amazing father. I will never forget it. I was always taking pictures of him and our various outings and adventures together. I'm so glad I did. I was always saying my Dad has "an award winning smile." It warms my heart to look back at all my photos and see his smiling face. He lived his life to the greatest and I know my grief is my own, because I miss him so. Forever my role model and hero.💐

My father, my friend. Sentient beacon of the Silent Generation. Within tradition, transcendent is your wisdom. Until we meet again.

-Eternally your daughter,
Amanda Fay Felt

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James Woodward Felt

10 marzo, 1938 – 27 diciembre, 2020

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