Happy Father's Day!

The Farmer and His Sons

A Farmer, being at death's door, and desiring to impart to his sons a secret of much moment, called them around them and said, "My sons, I am shortly about to die. I would have you know, therefore, that in my vineyard lies a hidden treasure. Dig, and you will find it." As soon as their father was dead, the sons took spade and fork and turned up the soil if the vineyard over and over again, in their search for the treasure which they supposed to lie there. They found none, however: but the vines, after so thorough a digging, produced a crop as had never before been seen.

There is no treasure without toil.

Aesop

A BIG "Thank You" to the Father, Father-in-Law, and "step-Daddy" in my life who toiled so hard to pass on a BIG Treasured Life to their sons and daughters.

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from The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories. William J. Bennett ed. Simon & Schuster, New York &c. 1993.