Deja Vu

                                             "Family faces are magic mirrors. 

Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. 

We make discoveries about ourselves."  

-Gail Lumet Buckley

 

Family reunions are a joyful reminder of how life goes on. Children become parents, parents become grandparents. The voids of those we lost are filled by the new arrivals.

Life comes full circle.

 

At this year's reunion, I kept finding myself thinking there goes Jeri's little girl Phoebe or here comes Pennie. But then I'd catch myself and remember this is 2010. They aren't those little people anymore, instead, they have created THESE little people of their own. These beautiful faces, the splitting images of their mommies.

Life is magical.