Scattering Dad's Ashes

We are here for a while and then we are gone.
Yet we are not gone - we live on in our actions,
and in the lives we touch

All those here have been touched by Dad's life -
Even those here who never met him -
To you he is a stranger you will never meet;'

And yet he has touched your lives -
through me, and through those here who knew him.

Dad loved the San Francisco Bay
some of my earliest memories are with him on the Bay
- he spent many days sailing on it,
And in the final months
he hoped he could get back out on the bay.

Now, as he wished, he is back on the bay.
We bid him goodbye,
but he will still be here even though he is gone.

Goodbye, Dad - I love you.