It was a rainy and foggy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain_________.

So here I was, _________ making the two-hour journey through the_________ that hung like veils.

“I’ll stay for lunch, but I’m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts," I announced when I _______.

"But I need your car to the garage to _________ my car," Carolyn said. "Could we at least do that?"

“How far is it?" I asked.

"About three minutes," she said. "I'll _________ I'm used to it."

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her _________. "I thought you said three minutes."

She _________ . "This is a detour."

Turning down a narrow track, we___________the car and got out.

From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were __________ of colorful daffodils (水仙花). It looked as though the sun had__________gold down the mountainside. Here and there were coral-colored tulips (郁金香). And as if these were not__________, western bluebirds played over the heads of the daffodils jofully

Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we __________ the home that stood in the center of the property, we saw a(n) __________ that read: "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are __________ About."

The first answer was: "One Woman Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little__________." The second was: "One at a Time." The third: "Started in 1958.”

One at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she__________ at it. The wonder of it would not let me__________". I imagine," I said, "If I'd had an idea and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have__________?

Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. "Start tomorrow," she said."__________ yet, start today."

My dad is a kind, gentle man with few words. But the words were always appropriate to the situation I was facing.

As a teen, when I ________ with making sense of the world around me, he taught me the right ________ of the world. When I was offered the chance to be a manager of an organization as an undergraduate student, I asked him for advice ________ he was a senior manager of a large company. His advice was simple, “Only when you become the manager can you have a vision for how you can be ________ with managing an organization within your power; management isn’t about power and it’s about________” I learned what I needed was not only to be ________ for my team but also to have leading ability.

My dad is 86 now, living on his own. He keeps a positive attitude despite the ________ that aging brings. Although we live quite far away from each other, we talk daily on the phone, and he shares the ________ of my young family. As I tell him how we’re ________ cycling or on a trip or out to play tennis, now his typical response is, “Do it while you can.” This is very important. We can’t ________ the future, which is always hard to be aware of.

Dad trusted me, and ________ me each time I was sad or ________. He rarely “lectured me”. His patience and ________ have been true gifts in my life. Whenever I doubt my ability and my motivation, I ________ recall his valuable advice, “Do it while you can. Seize the day and ________ it to the fullest.” It’s enough to “just get me started”.

When I was young, my father and I used to climb the mountains near my house.South Korea has more_______than pails, and for this reason, climbing the mountains has been a natural thing for me since I was a kid.

_______ together, my father and I used to have a _______through which I learned a lot from him. He always stressed, “You should have goals in life just like in climbing the mountains. ”This has_______ my life deeply.

Without such mountaineering_______, we couldn’t have had enough time to spend together because my father was very _______. I believe mountaineering is really_______.It gave me time to talk with my father and to develop my _______. I loved walking in the mountains, _______the routine of city life, the noise and the pollution, and being able to breathe fresh air.

One time we climbed one of the highest mountains in Korea.It was so________for me because I was only ten years old.________the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the fresh air, the birds singing, and the beautiful dances of butterflies. As time passed, I got pains in both of my________. I wanted to quit climbing.But my father said to me, “________ is a season when everything comes to life again.The mountain where we are________are decorated with flowers and trees. You can________see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t ________you are halfway up.Only at the________ can you enjoy all the beautiful things, just like in ________. You should have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. ”

At that time, I was too ________to understand his words, but after that, I got new hope and confidence. ________I found myself standing at the top of the mountain. And there, I could see the beautiful sky.