Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Blood Kin

My cousin and I talked for three hours. Longer than we've ever talked together in our entire lives.
His eyebrows are the same as mine.
We are blood.
How strange.
How wonderful.
I took him into my bedroom and showed him one of my most precious possessions- a picture his father painted when he was a boy and which had always hung over my grandmother's bed when she was alive and since then, always in my room. I offered it up to him but he said, "No, you keep it. I have others he painted."

It was a good night. I am tired but I would not have traded this night for anything.

10 comments:

  1. Sometimes aren't you just so glad you said 'yes'?

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  2. I hope when you work through it all and have some dreams about it all, you'll write a few of those three hours up -- I am glad that it was good, though. I'm glad.

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  3. Thinking of you, dear Mary, and all the love you live inside of.

    XXX Beth

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  4. I can imagine it was good to talk to someone so close who you haven't seen in so long at this time. And the picture of Owen, Gibson and Lily can always be held in your mind for comfort now. You were the master creator of all that love. There is nothing more you need than to know that. S. Jo

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  5. So good to connect with him.

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  6. such gifts of family time these last few weeks. thanks for sharing them with us. feel better. xo

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  7. Oh, good. Good.

    I've often been surprised by the family chin- my children both had cleft chins evident on their ultrasounds. They'll be able to look at their own cousins in twenty or thirty years and hopefully feel a thread of commonality, like you did here.

    Much love.

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  8. It's so great that you got to have this meeting. Family ties can be a pain, but they're also something really special.

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  9. I, too, would love to have been a fly on the wall for those three hours.

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  10. I'm reading these all in reverse, so I have no idea of what led up to this.
    It's nice to meet family that doesn't make you want to chop down your family tree. LOL!

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