As I sat across the bed, watching Mom, asleep and trying to
heal, it struck me how much she must have seen, and knows. I wondered if she
realized what she did so long ago when she started her little family that grew
to 5 children.
Then I perused through Facebook and came across this
wonderful photo of Mom and my little niece Alexa, Mom’s latest great
grandchild, and I thought of the many years and generations that exist between
the two birthdates. All the family history sits in between Mom and her great
grandchild, all the deeds and actions, all the education and life experiences
that are waiting to be revealed and borrowed, given and taken, and living life
at it’s fullest.
In between them lies almost 100 years of experience, the
first world war, the depression and the second world war, the moon landing and
TV, the computer and the cell-phone, all between these two related and direct
descendants of even older generations. There are the graduations, births, and
marriages, jobs and deaths, all forever evident in the existence of this small
child that goes way back to 1918, and bridges into the 21st Century.
Someday, that little girl may be holding a small child just
like herself, and we will then have almost 200 years of history, as we reach so
far back into the past and likewise so far into the future.
I wonder if there will be another ‘Uncle Joe’ in spirit at
least?
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