Things I already miss about my father

 It’s only been 48 hours so these aren’t particularly deep thoughts. But they are thoughts nonetheless.

• I just finished N K Jemisin's marvelous Broken Earth trilogy, and I really wanted to know what dad thought about it. He had zipped through all three volumes in barely 10 days, while it took me two months to finish them. He was a much faster reader than me. But he was waiting patiently until I finished the last volume before telling me. So now I'll never know.
• I played some golf, which I enjoy but don't do often, and am not very good at. But my dad loved golf and was remarkably good at it , so I wanted to tell him some stories from my golf trip. Don't get to do that and have no one else to tell.
• The golf courses were out in the desert and my dad had a phenomenal knowledge of desert plants; i wanted to tell him about the mesquite and the tamarisk and the locust and the acacia that were lining the course.
• I was learning a bit about prediction markets and they are pretty abstract and so I wanted to talk to my dad about them to see what he thought. I think he would have found them fascinating