sorry that I haven't posted in a couple months
To me losing my mother was pretty much a wrap for last year.
No matter how badly I felt about my family relationships not having them anymore has left me stranded in the present.
My mother has one last sibling (her brother) still alive. I plan to see him this spring. He's fragile and in a small nursing home in Kansas. He's lived in Glasco area all his life (except for three years in WWII in the army) and all his links are there.
My father's last sibling and his wife are in Durango Colorado - in fragile health but actively walking and living there.
Those are the last links to my family before my generation.
It feels strange to be the oldest of the family living.
Of course some of my generation are gone as well - car accidents, genetic defects that took them young - but most are living. I've a brother and sister. On my mother's side I have one cousin whose wife died last summer in a four wheeler accident. On my father's side have a multitude of cousins - about 20 or so still alive. (My father had eight brothers and sisters of whom six were married with several children each.)
Change.
More later and hopefully soon.
No matter how badly I felt about my family relationships not having them anymore has left me stranded in the present.
My mother has one last sibling (her brother) still alive. I plan to see him this spring. He's fragile and in a small nursing home in Kansas. He's lived in Glasco area all his life (except for three years in WWII in the army) and all his links are there.
My father's last sibling and his wife are in Durango Colorado - in fragile health but actively walking and living there.
Those are the last links to my family before my generation.
It feels strange to be the oldest of the family living.
Of course some of my generation are gone as well - car accidents, genetic defects that took them young - but most are living. I've a brother and sister. On my mother's side I have one cousin whose wife died last summer in a four wheeler accident. On my father's side have a multitude of cousins - about 20 or so still alive. (My father had eight brothers and sisters of whom six were married with several children each.)
Change.
More later and hopefully soon.