Family Matters

For those of you who enjoy peeking into the hidden meanings or messages this will be a posting about my family.
I have a great family. Very supportive in telling me oftem with emphasis that I am of a former generation and do not know much about what is going on in the present real world.
So I ask what is going on in the real presence and I get the standard answer that parents have received through the ages, the three word answer of "I don't know" which is really a four word answer but shortened even before Twitter. A variant of this answer is often "Well you know" with a voice level trailing off into a distant nothingness.
Now it is true that I am of a slightly earlier generation where we had some values slightly different. Yes, I do hear you groaning "there he goes again" but I do not intend to stay on this highway. Instead let me switch off to a branch of family life that this whole family does truly enjoy. We enjoy getting together and we enjoy eating. We also have a great dose of humor and when we are together at a meal or not at a meal but together we laugh and carry on. There are stories being told that are mostly true but dressed up a little bit as it has resided in the mind of the raconteur and has become infused with his/her background.
But that does not matter. The story is still funny and, maybe, we have heard a version of it at an earlier get-together, it is still funny when told by someone else who tackles it from a different viewpoint.
Yes we may be a different type of family. Many families I am acquainted with do not often get together and when they do it is to settle a dispute or some such foolish thing that in the end does not amount to a mountain of beans, no, not even to a hill of beans but has been left to fester instead of being taken care of in its infancy.

How did I get from starting out to talk about me and here I am saying things that tells you how proud I am of my family. Yes I am. We have come through some hard times individually and as a family. We stuck together, we supported each other, and it looks like that we now have arrived at a plateau where we can relax and take time once in a while to smell the roses. We can do this smelling in the small family circles of each individual family member and we certainly do it in the many times we join each other for no other reason than to have the feeling that we want to be where the laughter is. Family of mine I love you very much.

Alex H.