Went to Yeocomico for Homecoming last weekend, and driving home I wondered what the hell I was doing living in Rocky Mount when your Daddy's and my roots are all in Tidewater.
I felt desolate so far from kin and without him to comfort me. He was such a warm place to turn to when things were bleak. I haven't forgotten that I have three wonderful daughters close by, but it is also nice to share memories with your own generation who knew you as a child and as a young person. Anyway, I am so grateful for my kids and please know it and trust that it is true.
I saw ,in addition to those I have kept up with, some dear cousins I have not seen for more than 40 years, but who I saw all the time as a child and teen and young adult. We got remembering my grandparents and our parents and what characters they could be. It was such fun. We were sitting on Tayloe's terrace looking at the Potomac on a sparkling day. Maryland across the way, of course. He has about a mile of waterfront there. The farm has been put in the nature conservancy and other than two homes, cannot ever be further developed. My cousin, Lloyd Griffith, who owns the adjoining farm with almost as much waterfront, has also put his place in the conservancy. It is so wonderful to know that something will not be destroyed by development and populated by DC retirees with no connections to the Northern Neck. Danny will know the area - it is right near Sandy Point. As far as I am concerned, Williamsburg has been absolutely ruined by development.
Have started another weight loss regime. One can only hope I will be as disciplined as Vicki.
Another reason not to eat out.
Has anyone heard from Danielle? Keith? I keep feeling we are losing Danielle.
Love to and for our family. Jeannie
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Oh, Jeannie, I honestly know how you feel about the re-connection to the friends and relatives from your childhood. There is a comfortable, nostalgic, loving feeling I get when I hear Aunt Peggy's voice or hear Carolyn say "scads" or "umpteenth." We were lucky to have wonderful childhoods! You should consider visiting more with these people, have them visit you for a few weeks or have somebody come once a month, but I can't let you move.....Love you so much!
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