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Show I want to hear about them. Some have won beauty contests, most of them are scholarship winners, win-ners, all live interesting lives. And this is the kind of family story I dearly love: In Oregon they go big for girls' track, and one of my grand-nieces was a fine sprinter. sprint-er. Infact,shecouldbeatevery-body Infact,shecouldbeatevery-body in the region except a big colored girl from Portland.Said she: I never got so tired of anything as I did that black bottom, always out ahead." Wonderful people, these relatives rel-atives of mine. Wish we could have a family reunion. Next best would be resumption of the family fam-ily letter. Mac. DOES YOUR CLAN have a family letter? Mine does. Rather, it did. Somewhere around the line it seems to have become pigeon-holed. You know how it goes?Some-body goes?Some-body lays out the course Bill to Mary to Joe's wife Maude and so on around the family circle until it gets back to Bill and he takes out his original and writes a new one within 10 days and sends it all on to Mary again. My sainted Mother once kept the family more or less together to-gether by writing to each kid and telling what the others had done. Finally, when she was about 80, she decided the job was too much and my sister set up the circle. Although Mother believed that the Lord would smite her dead if she said the word, probably she figuratively, figurat-ively, not literally, said the hell with it. THERE WERE SIX kids in the Mac family, resulting in a constantly growing line of descendantsI des-cendantsI now have a couple of great-grand nieces. (Of course I'm the baby.) The news of trips, anecdotes, births, promotions, pro-motions, honors and health, complete with pictures, is something to look forward to, and suddenly I miss it. Somewhere along the line the letter is stalled. Been nine months now since it came around. Wha hoppen? I try to keep my own missives terse and to the point, no nonsense. non-sense. For me, as you must realize, this aint easy, but there's a reason. SOMEBODY, I never knew exactly who but I have a pretty good idea, censored part of my letter once. It was an innocent little wonderment if I was the only one in the family who wet the bed until he was 5 years old. That was cut out with scissors. scis-sors. Ever since, the Mac family has had facts only from me. I'm proud of my family and |