Saturday, May 26, 2007

Family History

My daughter, one of them, age 35, is getting ready to visit distant relatives in Australia: distant geographically, and in every other way. She is unmarried, and, apparently wants to find out why. Pretty good idea to visit relatives and see how they did with the marriage bond. She has promised to have a photo taken of herself in front of her grandmothers grave on a beautiful hill overlooking Sydney Harbor, so deep and blue. She said she wants an amusing shot of her apparently standing at her own grave: the names are identical. Can't give the name because of the stupid AOL trolls who think it their duty to dig up old bones of the people they hate, them, and their relatives. Fascist pigs.


My daughter has learned a lot already through my brothers, and or their wives, depending on who's dead and who is not dead. One fascinating turn I learned of very recently is that one proud, establishment family related by marriage, has fallen on hard times. They owned their town's only department store. That store no longer exists. I'm afraid the high and mighty had a great fall. God likes us to evade hubris. 


Barry 


 


 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Me confused about the AOL part. She will love Syndey, its a beautiful place, it's a shame it's winter now.
Gaz

Anonymous said...

Barry I hope your Daughter has a safe journey to Australia ~ And  when she returns home she will have gained all the knowledge she needed to know about her relatives ~ Ally