My Aging Father's Decline: A Son's Photo Journal

Phillip Toledano Days with my Father
Phillip Toledano

My Dad Was Essentially Retired When I Was Growing Up
But for my ambitious, driven father, he wasn't retired at all, just working on his next career: being an artist. I have so many memories of him listening to opera, sketching, painting, sculpting. Although he doesn't paint anymore, he still sees. He was admiring the sunset, saying that he could make a whole series of paintings around those wonderful colors ... The urge is still there. Even if the physical ability is not.

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