In contrast to deathiversary day, it's easy to be in a good mood to celebrate my father's birth. It's April 11, just a couple weeks after mine and seven days before my son Landon's.

 
On the day Thomas J. Wingate would have turned eighty, we were in a fine mood. Come see for yourself. 

While you're in a celebratory mood, why not listen to this short reflection from what would have been his 62nd birthday?

I love goats––seriously, I fantasize all the time about having a goat farm myself when I'm old. I wonder what came first: my love for goats or my dream of my father loving goats. If this dream came first, and I started loving goats because of it... Well, then I don't know what to say.