Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
This week's theme for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Reunion. I immediately thought about my dad meeting his relatives, on his father's side for the first time.
I'll give you the backstory. Back in early 2016, my sister was messaging back and both with our father's 1st cousin. Our father's 1st cousin didn't know that our grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, one of her uncles, had a son.
My cousin and my father exchanged phone numbers at some point in time and started to talk. I not sure how long how often they talked from Mar. 2016-Oct 2017.
Eventually, they went to each other. My father went to Michigan to just visit his friends, 2 months after was at his mother's funeral. He went to Macomb County, Michigan to see them. From his account, he said he was nervous, and when he walked through the door they said, "You look like Uncle George".
Many people came to see him. The family showed him pictures and gave him a couple of them to keep. The family told him they had an annual family reunion since there are so many descendants of one of my ancestral couples, Gursie Gable and George Pearson.
Before that, my family didn't have family reunions, get-togethers, or gatherings. That didn't very exist for us. The 2020 family reunion is in Detroit, Michigan. So, I guess we're going to it. 😀
I'll give you the backstory. Back in early 2016, my sister was messaging back and both with our father's 1st cousin. Our father's 1st cousin didn't know that our grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, one of her uncles, had a son.
My cousin and my father exchanged phone numbers at some point in time and started to talk. I not sure how long how often they talked from Mar. 2016-Oct 2017.
Eventually, they went to each other. My father went to Michigan to just visit his friends, 2 months after was at his mother's funeral. He went to Macomb County, Michigan to see them. From his account, he said he was nervous, and when he walked through the door they said, "You look like Uncle George".
Many people came to see him. The family showed him pictures and gave him a couple of them to keep. The family told him they had an annual family reunion since there are so many descendants of one of my ancestral couples, Gursie Gable and George Pearson.
Before that, my family didn't have family reunions, get-togethers, or gatherings. That didn't very exist for us. The 2020 family reunion is in Detroit, Michigan. So, I guess we're going to it. 😀
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