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LIFELONG LOVE LETTER
Some people think of family as an endless book where each day they engage in completing another chapter…in writing another page
Some people think of family as an endless song with notes varied and diverse…where each day they add another tune…another melody another verse.
Though both of these are appealing I find, for me, it is much better…when I think of my family..to think in terms of a lifelong love letter.
A letter started long ago…I know not when or where…written through the centuries with thoughtfulness and care.
A letter written by a million hands…young and old and new…a letter any family member can add their thoughts and feelings to.
This love letter is special to my family…we are the ones who see…within this letter…the constant rebuilding and rearranging of our family.
But here is where it gets interesting…mysterious even madcap…in the way so many of all our family love letters blend together…overlap.
For as we write a little every day how often do we find…I end up in your love letter…and you end up in mine.
For in this letter not only members born into my family will you see…but friends I’ve met along the way…who have become my family.
If you’re looking for its beauty and its power once the seeds of love are sown…the proof is in our love letters…and how large our families have grown.
And if we’re lucky…
when our writing days are done…
another family member will pick up the pen…thus extending…
this love letter….started long ago…
that, hopefully…will never have an ending..
