Love,family,unity

This was the theme of the family reunion last night. I thought it'd be a Johnson reunion or a Crawford one, but it was not. It was one for a family that we married into, the Johnson's I think. Not that it matters. They treated us with love and respect.

Despite whatever family drama they have, and they acknowledge it's there, they always get together every year and they celebrate each other. It was at the beautiful Melia hotel in the Georgia ballroom in downtown Atlanta. Three days of celebration, three days of putting personal crap aside to honor each other, the family, the legacy.

I sat here and thought about my family and how splintered we are. Let's be real. Stuff has taken the front seat, and honoring and respecting our past the backseat. Instead of unity it's division and regardless of how you feel, Elmer and Audrey Mckenzie deserve better from their descendants. Did they not choose to have all of us come into the world? That is the greatest gift they could give you.

I was struck by how similar and yet how different families can be. The patriarch of that family was a wealthy man who lost the greater majority of his money extending loans to people who did not pay him back. And yet...the family was full of successful, very successful people, including the vice president of NBC and several cable networks. Anyone can rise past their past and that includes their emotional baggage too.

You may hate your ancestors, but they make you who you are. You may not agree with your siblings but they are a part of you. To cut ties with them over petty things is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The family there was full of successful very bright children who obviously inherited awesome genes all the way back from their predecessor. Why can't honoring the family be placed above our selfish desires?

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