Family Trees

If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
~ Winnie the Pooh


A cousin of mine is doing a family tree and so tonight I sent her some information that I had. I could not help but wonder on this Valentine’s Day, of all the love those pages of the various genograms held. I flipped through photographs of weddings of my parents and grandparents and smiled.

I have information for both sets of grandparents, their offspring, and their children. What a wonderfully rich heritage I have. I love the craziness that happened in the family back in Quebec. It appears that two brothers married girls from the same family. I guess there is nothing wrong in marrying your sister-in-law, right?

The heartache that history holds is evident too. So many of the children died of influenza. I had done a university project in 2003 and now eight years later, I need to update the information due to a few deaths. Sad really. I know my aunt is facing Valentine’s Day without her husband for the first time in over 45 years. I am sure it must be an especially difficult day for her since her husband died three weeks ago tomorrow.

Ah, love….I wonder what happens to the memories of love so long ago….who holds them still?

Peace,

Suzanne