Re-Connect

My cousin BJ and I have been re-establishing a relationship via email and I love and appreciate the way it's developing. It started off some weeks ago with one or two messages a week; now we're getting up to two or three a day, some days. There have been some strange coincidences in things we're perceiving, experiencing and reading. But, there are seemingly, no coincidences. We were thrust back into one anothers path by our favourite aunt; I'm glad she meddles a little sometimes. I can imagine the next family occasion that we meet at and the family's reaction to the rib crushing hugs - 'What's up with these two?' She and I are getting a little window into one anothers lives.

Our generation should re-establish an event that my parents used to hold each summer when I was in my teens,twenties and early thirties. They'd throw their annual corn-bash in August and it'd be open to all family and friends for barbequed burgers and all the corn-on-the-cob you could eat. Dad would get all choked up at the sheer numbers that cared to show up. A testament to their marriage and impact on a lot of lives. It was also a hoot and a helluva good time. It'd be a logistical nightmare to organize now as we're spread all over the country but it's something to work on. Most of our kids have never met each other and they're the poorer for it.