Monday, June 17, 2013

Diem de Patres



"Diem de Patres" rougly means "Day of Fathers", from what I recall from my small vocabulary of Latin words. I merely combined them, having no knowledge of their grammar rules and such, but it shall do.

The day when fathers are honored by any means.
Most people celebrate it in a feast, others by simply going out with their father's.
Either way, it all remains the same.


Back then, Father's Day was meant to complement the already-existing Mother's Day, and ever since has become a regular event to be held annually. History states that other than to have a rapport with Mother's Day, the said day had allegedly sprouted from a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd.

Sonora had a father, a Civil War veteran, who single-handedly raised his six children in Spokane YMCA. After hearing about the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day, she told her pastors that fathers should have a similar holiday. And as such, ways have been created just for it to be official, some roads were destroyed in criticism but in the end, the holiday was pushed.



In our family, Ferdinand Peralta Lugtu is our governing body. The pillar of the house. The head of everything happening at home.
And so far, he had been a great teacher to the rest of our family.

With his seemingly boundless knowledge and wisdom, he can solve and give proper alternatives to problems that periodically arise, although at some cases he gives a rather humorous way to finish a problem.


He can have fun with us his children by effectively widening his likes to cover our own likes too. For instance, when he heard the bands we were listening to nowadays, he listens to them too, even putting their songs as his personal alarm tone. 



These things are just a generalization of what kind of a great father mine is, and probably will bore you if all the details were to be included. 


I almost forgot. He's the most handsome man (who I shall succeed at some other time) ever.
So in another summary, my father is:


easily, the greatest.


Happy Father's Day Dadi!
And also to all fathers out there, including my family's own, my grandfather and my uncles and my cousin!

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