We are getting ready to cook walleye and go to Eleanor's for a Father's day dinner. Lots of memories of families have been discussed this weekend and she talked quite a bit about her own family. She remembered when her sister Florence and brother Bob came for a visit two years ago. She commented that Bob had told her that he doesn't really have many memories of her. She was 13 when Bob was born, and had left for nursing school and then WWII when he was 4 years old.
We talked about how families today move apart and don't get to see one another on a regular basis. I told her that when she moved here, she was essentially a person I remembered from 35 years ago when I left home to go to college. I am thankful for the opportunity to reconnect with my mother after three and one half decades. I regret that I had didn't have the time to do the same with my father.We are the people who others remember us to be; unfortunately for some those memories are 30-40 years old. Take some time to reconnect with family and talk about the present, not the past. It would be a good day to remember our fathers and the families we all were a part of years ago.
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