Why?

We can't change the past but it gives us a sense of who we are. It's the common bond. When extended family slips away; resources are lost for old and the young.

Perhaps, it's because we don't think we need family like we used to. It's work and effort. Easier to let go and let the boat drift away than thinking we're the only one willing to hold on. Easier to focus on our differences and what hasn't been given. I've done that too.

Yesterday took pride in the virtues: Trust, Determination, Honesty. Today values in Production: Independence, Autonomy, and Efficency.

The goal of this blog is to pick up the pieces left behind and make something of common meaning to the family. An importance of each other that moves past the quirks, squabbles, and grudges. To take pride in accomplishments that have been and tears that have been shed.

Yesterday gives us the the determination that it's worth it and to forge on.

The family web site works for our today so that tomorrow our frailties will be overlooked with love and friendship.

Herb + Alice = 59

No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Pearl S. Buck