Family Matters
I received an email from my 22 yr old niece today; she is in NYC on a two-week vacation. I'm not sure how to take this news; after all, she has been promising to come visit me here in Memphis from her home in Atlanta for about two years now.
I sarcastically tell her that I can see as how it is cheaper, easier, quicker to visit New York! that to visit Memphis, but secretly I envy her. I envy her youth, her adventurous spirit, her complete freedom to just take off and go to New York for two weeks.
She wants to start up a correspondence via email; I think that is wonderful. We last corresponded regularly when she was six or seven, and I was travelling around the world courtesy of Uncle Sam. I like to think she inherited a little bit of her sense of adventure from me.
I'm also hoping that by spending a little time in NY, she will see the world through a different lens than the ultra right-wing conservative Christian lens her parents have shown her. (Her mother, my youngest sister, publishes a Christian newspaper.)
I wish her luck.
I sarcastically tell her that I can see as how it is cheaper, easier, quicker to visit New York! that to visit Memphis, but secretly I envy her. I envy her youth, her adventurous spirit, her complete freedom to just take off and go to New York for two weeks.
She wants to start up a correspondence via email; I think that is wonderful. We last corresponded regularly when she was six or seven, and I was travelling around the world courtesy of Uncle Sam. I like to think she inherited a little bit of her sense of adventure from me.
I'm also hoping that by spending a little time in NY, she will see the world through a different lens than the ultra right-wing conservative Christian lens her parents have shown her. (Her mother, my youngest sister, publishes a Christian newspaper.)
I wish her luck.
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