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I don’t know about you, but personally, I find Father's Day is probably the most difficult holiday in the calendar. Not because it’s obscure or commercialized or even controversial. Far from it, actually. It seems difficult in this day and age for us to figure out exactly what fatherhood is supposed to entail. We can go back to the original Father of Father's day for a clue. In the traditional Christian calendar, fathers were often honored on St. Joseph's feast day, on March 19. However, a woman named Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, inspired by Anna Jarvis’ campaign to establish Mother’s Day, decided that in honor of her own father, she wanted to establish a corresponding holiday to commemorate fathers. Her father, William Jackson Smart, had to raise their family single-handedly when her mother died while giving birth to their sixth child. She wanted to acknowledge the courage, protectiveness, and selflessness that her father showed when he raised his family as a single parent. The first Father's Day was celebrated in June of 1910. Now, the redefining of the father's role in today's shifting family dynamic is difficult enough. This, in itself, is tough enough to handle and adapt to. However, the perennial problem with Father's Day makes that challenge pale by comparison. Particularly, how in tarnation do you celebrate Father’s Day? There is an abundance of gifts for fathers everywhere you go, easily found at every shopping mall and gift shop, locally available or through the Internet. But that’s just the problem, you see. All of these gifts are becoming commonplace and boring, frankly speaking. I mean, let me ask you this: What can you give your father as a gift on his special day that won't collect dust on a shelf or clutter up a dresser, and won’t become an unrecognizable antique in the garage or spare room? You want to give him something that will actually be appreciated or used the day after it's given? And more importantly, what can you give that isn't something Dad hasn't already bought for himself? Moms are so much easier. Just invite the whole family over for a 5 course meal, and just let her enjoy the day and the company without having to do any of the hosting or cooking or cleaning work. If you want, you can send her out for a day at the spa. You can easily find something or someplace to pamper her and make her feel like a queen. Fathers can be relatively easy to find gifts for. If your dad is a techno-geek, an outdoorsman, a sports fanatic, or a home theater nut, there are countless gift ideas readily available at your nearest shopping mall. Just get him a car for his train set, a new computer gadget, a couple of tickets to the game, or the latest DVD. You can also plunk yourself down in front of your computer and find several gifts for him on the Internet. But do these gifts really show him how much we appreciate and love him for his kindness, courage, protection, concern, and strength? Fear not, there are alternatives to those types of gifts. How about plants and flowers?. Not something that one usually associates with Father's Day, right? How many people give flowers and plants to their dads on Father’s Day, or for any other special occasion, for that matter? The fact that these types of gifts are not the ones you’d usually think of on Father’s Day makes them even more special. Believe it or not, there are masculine plants and flowers that can symbolize the very things that we've decided are paternal qualities. You want an example? How about the sunflower, which’s big and strong, with a bright face like a shining symbol of hope in a dark and gloomy place. Violets are great, also. Violets have long been associated with fidelity and trust as well as with sacrifice and devotion. Now those are gifts that a father would like.
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