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well, just about everything. Temper- ing the exciting, adventurous, and sometimes dangerous influences of the world, including dad’s hare- brained ideas, are included in your resume. Mothers are more likely than fathers to encourage assimilative and communion augmenting patterns in their children. Mothers are more likely than fathers to acknowledge their children’s participation in con- versation. The way mothers speak (“motherese”) is better suited to sup- port children in their efforts to un- derstand speech. With these admis- sions, my analytical readers should now be more receptive to this, my less clinically focused, Mother’s Day thank you note.
You and dad raised three boys. The ones known throughout the neigh- borhood, the school, and the airport as skinny, long-haired and raucous. We never got into any real trouble, but through multiple encounters with each of us, our small-town sheriff rec- ognized us as the “Dingman boys.” We were the ones that made babysitters cry, grandma shiver, and you worry. But you persevered and gave us the confidence to succeed. We’ve grown up to become a machinist, a chemist and a pilot. And we know that:
We made you cry
You wanted that last piece
of pecan pie It did hurt
You were afraid
You watched us sleep
You carried us a lot longer
than nine months
It broke your heart every
time we cried
You put us first
You miss those days...well,
Caught It on Fire
You didn’t like me riding motor- cycles or flying little airplanes, and you told me so but didn’t stop me. And you like to tell people how, on my first solo, I had a close encounter of the third kind. Well, it was a UFO until it became an IFO (it turns out it was a red party balloon in the traf- fic pattern). I probably didn’t need to worry you by reporting it on tower frequency. Except for the military airplanes you have flown with me in all of them. You and dad even went to Oshkosh, Mackinac Island and golfing a few times in the Duke. Remember the time we crossed Lake Michigan in a Warrior at night in the weather and icing? And don’t forget the time dad and I over-primed the 150 on that bitter cold morning and brief ly caught it on fire. Now that I’m older with lots of experience, I tell people that whether caused by the pilot, a situ- ation, the weather or by living the experiences of others vicariously, it’s
most of them CIES
Mothers hold children’s hands
for a short while –
but their hearts forever.
Hillaero
Dan Moore
May 2021 / TWIN & TURBINE • 23