{"id":10584,"date":"2015-03-17T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2015-03-17T12:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:50:03","slug":"reunion-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2015\/03\/17\/reunion-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reunion-2015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Left to right: Sister Sue and Mark (San Luis Obispo, CA), brother Steve and Karen (Sonora, CA), me and Anne (Dana Point, CA), sister Lori and Leonard (Chicago, IL), Roger and sister Lynnel (Siloam Springs, AK).\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n

I reported last week about the siblings’ reunion coming up. It happened. And it was glorious. I also said we’d take a picture, which several asked to see, so here it is. This one’s not at the old house but in the backyard of our place in Dana Point, with a better camera and photographer Allison shooting.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the weather was wonderful for the occasion. It was unseasonably warm at Disneyland but no problem. Lines were long, but that was no problem either as we found ourselves in different conversation units in each.<\/p>\n

We did all the things we planned, including watching old movies, until the wiring on Dad’s old projector gave out. Still, we roared with laughter at the recognition of what we and others looked like many years ago.<\/p>\n

On a couple of occasions we set apart time to intentionally reminisce. One was at the Palos Verdes house where we grew up, recounting stories about it and our parents. Another was when\u00a0we all took a few minutes\u00a0to recount our lives since being together last, where we’ve seen the hand\u00a0of God, and something appreciative about our spouse. All this was rich, and brought out things that would have never surfaced otherwise. Sister Sue remarked later it was the best day of her life. (And her life is one filled with great\u00a0days.)<\/p>\n

\"Mom-and-Dad-Book-with-bg\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
Here’s the book, mainly for family, but to be made available more widely when finished.<\/em><\/h6>\n

At one point I presented proof copies of the book I’ve been working on. It features the lives of Mom and Dad with\u00a0a lot of the material I’ve shared in this blog, and more.\u00a0Of course they were completely surprised and delighted. They’re also commissioned to read it, make corrections and get it back to me for final publishing. (More on that when it’s finished.)<\/p>\n

We also made\u00a0(tentative) plans for a\u00a0next reunion, whenever that will be. These things have to be intentional or they don’t happen. And when they do happen, we further appreciate\u00a0the quality, the direction, and the meaning of our own lives . . . not to mention the heritage we’ve received, and are receiving, born and raised as we were by a particular set of parents.<\/p>\n

It’s something all of us have to be grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having said we’d get together on the anniversary of Dad’s death, here’s a report back, even with a model of how anybody can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}