Family Gatherings

December 22family gatherings,city park lake,ducks and geese

I am thankful for family gatherings. Family is wonderful. Family is our fortress against the storm. But you gotta take the bad with the good, as they say. It can sometimes be very hectic. But what would we do without family! (Maybe a little more tranquility? haha). I wouldn't have it any other way.

The photo was taken at City Park Lake of this couple and the ducks and geese. It reminded me of the sometimes disarrayed gathering of our relatives. Even though you can tell everything was helter skelter, this couple and their two children (out of photo) were having a blast with the ducks.

family gatherings

well now’s your chance

your chance to get far away

the family is riding into town

to visit and play

uncle ralph will yodel a tune

aunt jean will cook up a gumbo

the kids and grandkids will run

some will watch the movie dumbo

little ralph will get gum in his hair

and joselyn will be screaming outside

she may run into a spider web

while playing seek and hide

katy lynn will cry again for some reason

little joe will track in dog poo

we’ll spin a yarn or two

sit down to dinner and chew

family gatherings can’t live with them

can’t live without them

but seems every year about this time

we’ll experience another crazy gem

well i guess i’ll pull up a chair

and sit and spin a yarn of my own

for without our family gatherings

each of us would simply be all alone.

© rt tulley