Hi dad.   Well, it’s been nine years without you in my life.   It’s been “nine nevers”, nine maybes, nine what-ifs, since you left this earth.   I think often, where has the time gone?   Where did it disappear to?   Just like the bible states, “We are like a mist that appears for a little while and gone tomorrow.”   We are but a mist, clinging to the Blueridge Mountains, high amongst the living, then settling in the appointed ravine.   It was your appointed time, August 11 th , 2008, but I still think and talk about you regularly.   It’s funny when I talk to my friends about you and they didn’t know you in your godly glory.   I try to explain details and “memory days” to have them relive those moments with me because, you were such an oracle in my life.   Your oracle nature has now been hidden for nine years.   It’s been washed over by nine rains, colored by nine rainbows, and covered by nine sparkle-light snows.   Your love still lives within my heart.   It has taken up nine