February 8, 2021

Good morning everyone, today is Monday February 8, 2021. The start of another week, they seem to be ruling on at tremendous speed. Warmer weather will be here before we know it. I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and the Super Bowl. I had a good time. This weekend brought me a gift I thought I would never see again. I have mentioned before that Marylou was involved with something called facing history and through that I became involved it is a course of study to understand the past.. through this we became involved with Holocaust studies and met some of the most amazing people in my life. On one excursion we went to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, when you leave you are given a card with the biography of a person and told wheather they survived or not. Our friend Harry received a card of a person he believed he knew, on investigation it was true he did know the person and she was alive and living in the area. Marylou helped him plan a reunion and they met again at Oliver St. School after 60 some years. I always felt that was a gift they both received from god.
Friday I was in the doctors office and I’m still play and trying to figure out the new phone when I came across a page of messages I never saw.there was one from early December so I opened it and the message read I have been looking for you I am your cousin. I did not recognize the name and everyone tells me don’t open things you don’t know the could be spam. But the message kept bothering me and I finally decide to answer it. I asked who are you and how are you my cousin. The reply came very quickly she is my cousin daughter of my mothers sister. I could not believe it. I have not seen or heard from anyone in my maternal family since I lost my mother and grandmother in nearly50 years now. My god I was in shock as she explained about her family. This was a gift to me from god not only did I find one cousin I found 6. Now they say your cousins are your first best friends and that is true, especially back then when we were all offsprings from recent immigrants. We were each other’s lives that’s who we saw and played with, aunts were like second mother’s to us.
What causes a separation , god only knows people move, marry and life just takes us all in different directions and before you know it 50 years have gone by. But no matter what we are still of the original tree planted hundreds of years ago in Italy and nothing can change that. COVID has changed me in ways I don’t even realize sometimes I think I am like a different person. The gift god gave me Friday is immeasurable to me, it made me realize out there is a family, a legacy we share. So I thank god for technology and the internet. Now I know how Happy Harry must have felt when he found his childhood friend it gives meaning to your past ,your history and you know how important that is to me. I have said a lot today thank you for listening.
It is very cold today so either stay right where you are and enjoy the comfort of your home or bundle and keep warm if you venture out. I’m not sur of my vision for the day yet but whatever you decide enjoy your day, Til Tomorrow!