Clover story family? The first reading of the new book 1 1.

Working the night shift with dad

Karen Heather (USA)

G. Brian callas painting

Translation: Huang

? Dad is a school cleaner. Every Friday night, the boy will buckle his father's lunch box, climb into the back seat of his father's motorcycle and accompany him to school for the night shift. Dad wants to clean up every corner of the school. When he is busy, he stays up all night. Dad cleaned the gym and the boy filmed in the dim light. While cleaning every corner of the school, he and his father listened to the lively baseball game on the other side of the world on the radio. At ten o'clock, they sat in the yard and ate their sandwiches. Then my father cleaned the library, and he read for my father. At four o'clock in the morning, dad woke him up and went home together. When he got home, he cleaned the lunch box for his father who had fallen asleep on the sofa.

The text of the story is peaceful and serene, and the picture is quiet and warm, but the love between father and son overflows from the text and the picture, just like lilacs at night. You can't see them, but you can clearly smell the flowers in the air, which is intoxicating and refreshing.

The "I" in the story can prepare dinner for my father, clean up with my father, listen to the ball game on the radio and read to my father in the library. Even in the middle of the night, even if it will be hard, it will be very happy. Because I'm with dad! With dad, the keychain can become as big as the moon, the building and the recliner can talk, the basketball bounces with the rhythm of dad mopping the floor, the radio travels with them, and even riding a motorcycle on the way home seems to fly in the sea. Everything, because with dad. With my father's company, the night is no longer dark, even if I wake up from my dream at four in the morning and face the cold air, it is the happiest moment.

Today's story reminds me of a report I read a few years ago, entitled "Happiness on the Road". Tell the story of a drip driver whose son is stunted and autistic. Because nobody cares about him, he takes his son out every day. "Excuse me, this is my son. He has some mental problems. I take him with me every day. I hope you can understand. " This is his opening remarks every time he receives passengers. In order to take care of the children's life and work, the father didn't leave the car until noon and worked nearly 10 hours a day. The child is happy with his father. He became more cheerful and willing to try to communicate. Although life is hard, the road that you can walk with your father is the road to happiness.

When the sun jumped out of the sea, I snuggled up to my father and fell asleep. In the dream, "we are riding on a rough sea road".

Because happiness is on the road.