My Father — Part I

My Father: Artist, scientist, science fiction aficionado, and….

Picture taken by my father of him, me, and Sandy, 1957

In my living room hangs a picture painted with watercolors directly onto a piece of plywood. It’s about four feet wide and eighteen inches tall. On the left edge is a rocky mountainside upon which sits a naked Cro-Magnon man, a club leaning against his hip, and he is looking over a strange landscape. On the ground nearest him are two grass huts, then two mud-clad…