A gath­er­ing of the fam­ily today with­out a death. A rare occur­rence. Nor­mally it is a loss that pulls our shortly-flung ranks back to a home base. Not today. Just hot dogs and ham­burg­ers and my-how-you've-grown or my-how-you've-lost. There is always more excla­ma­tion at the loss. That is what we notice. We notice that M– […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…