{"id":12817,"date":"2016-04-04T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margiewarrellold.flywheelsites.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2016-04-04T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:56:36","slug":"talktome-dads-wisdom-on-life-love-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/talktome-dads-wisdom-on-life-love-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"#TalkToMe: Dad&#8217;s wisdom on life, love &#038; loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At eighty year of age, my dad&#8217;s had his share of hard knocks, from losing a son after a long battle with mental illness to supporting another adapt to life in a wheelchair. Yet while I&#8217;m clearly biased, I believe he&#8217;s one of the most loving and loveable men you&#8217;d ever meet.<\/p>\n<p>Dad (better known as Ray Kleinitz to everyone else) left school at sixteen and, apart from a year cutting sugar cane in Australia&#8217;s far north, spent his entire working life milking cows on the small dairy farm in rural Australia (a little known place called Nungurner that doesn&#8217;t even have a shop.)<\/p>\n<p>Over Easter I headed back &#8216;home&#8217; to spend time with my parents, married 50 years this May. Before I left, I sat down to film this short interview for Huffington Post&#8217;s <em>#TalkToMe: <\/em>Dad&#8217;s Wisdom campaign.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Father&#039;s Hard-Won Wisdom On Life, Love And Loss #TalkToMe\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKWyKnJiO3c?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll take five minutes to watch it and that dad&#8217;s humility and wisdom will inspire you in some small way &#8211; whether to &#8216;aim for the top of the ladder, not the bottom&#8217; or to keep faith that, even amid the toughest times, everything will work out okay.<\/p>\n<p>Funny enough, what affected me most from doing this interview with dad wasn&#8217;t inspiration to do more with my life, but to be more grateful for what I&#8217;ve already done. Something I&#8217;m often pretty lousy at doing.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years dad has taught me a lot about gratitude. While he didn&#8217;t share it in this interview, he often says he feels like the richest man in all the world. It&#8217;s always made me smile because while dad never got close to earning a six figure income (much less to accruing a nice retirement fund), many people with far more affluence never feel remotely as wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>As dad has told me many times, &#8220;Count your blessings Margie. Too often we don&#8217;t appreciate what we have until we no longer have it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dad is one of my life&#8217;s greatest blessings. I hope his faith, humility and hard won wisdom will bless you in some way also! #TalkToMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At eighty year of age, my dad&#8217;s had his share of hard knocks, from losing a son after a long battle with mental illness to supporting another adapt to life in a wheelchair. 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