Schnozz on Ice

There is much Wayne received from father Walter, but the most obvious is surely the "Gretzky nose," doubly profiled in today's objet d'eBay.

The framed Gretzkys, accompanied by two commemorative medallions, are a fairly effective visual metaphor for the joy of father and child focused in the same direction. Does each understand the other's dreams? Probably not exactly. But it always helps if they can treat the same path, even for a few days as the fathers of Philadelphia Flyers did recently, roadtripping with their sons.

** A child or father can respect the other without understanding their hope, but there is forever joy found in its sharing. **