Across the continent, the breakfasts in bed, greeting cards, neckties, chocolates, long distance phone calls, barbeques, picnics, U.S. Open, NBA Finals, NASCAR, FIFA World Cup play and whatever else people did (or watched) this Fathers’ Day are, as we say, in the rear view mirror.

Now it is Monday and, all of yesterday’s experiences notwithstanding, each of us who is a father faces the truth about the sort of father he truly is.

Irvin Yalom, Stanford Emeritus professor of psychatry told Salon:

You know, I’ve never heard anyone near death say — and I’ve never heard of anyone who’s ever known anyone near death say — "I wish I had spent more time at work."

Nobody ever says this. Everybody, everybody, says, "God, I wish I’d spent time doing the things I wanted to do — reading more, writing more, traveling, seeing all these places, being closer to people, to my children."

If we are parents it is our children who get the final word on whether we believe that or not.

For what it’s worth: Fast Company was kind enough to remind us of James Levine’s advice to working fathers, which we pass along with best wishes for a happy day after Father’s Day and abiding peace throughout your household.