That and this

Because I haven't written anything for such a long time, I'm going to just do something short to try to get unblocked.

I'm actually at a family reunion of sorts, and if there's anything that's going to block me it's that. This is 15 people who are pretty much never in the same place at the same time. It's me, my brother and sister, and all of our kids, plus 1 boyfriend and 2 girlfriends (one of which is my dad's). There's no open hostility or anything, but I'm not that sociable and I don't like big groups, and there's something weird about feeling that way about your own family. It's an uneasy feeling. Nobody's fault but my own.

A must for any family get-together

So I'm at the airport a couple of days ago picking up my wife and daughter, and as we're on the moving walkway, the announcement comes on that we're nearing the end of the walkway, so please face forward. I know this is predictable behavior on my part, but my first reaction to that is to try to picture what facing backwards would look like. I can't really conceive of how that's even possible; it seems internally contradictory.

I haven't written much because much of what's been going on in my life has felt too serious and close to my heart to write about. But I haven't lost my sense of joy, so I'm going to try to start capturing that here.