Family

Family.

Strange word. Fam-ily. 

Family.

The definition in Wikipedia reads as follows: Family denotes a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, and co-residence. Go and figure that out for yourself.

Meant to convey a sense of familiarity, the term and the reality of family when most of us come face to face with  it means a sense of being at ease with people who you know well and are familiar with, whose quirks and strengths and failings and follies you can endure and even enjoy eventually. People who you know and who you care about and whose company you enjoy, whatever the circumstances. If bad, pull together, if good then lime and laugh.

Family.

"Bring back the old time days, bring back them old time ways" said Nappy Mayers wise man that he was. Them old time ways revert right back to family and to what has been largely lost in this 21st. century.

Family.

It has been said that you can never go home any more. That is a lonely thought.

Having family means that you can be at home if only for awhile, to again share all the times, the events of our lives, our past, our present and our potential future, if not all together, then at least somewhat together.

Having family means that you can go home.