Distance has no way of making love understandable

There are few things as important to me as family. One of them is my own life. Interestingly enough, this ties in very well with my family.

One of the things I think is that everyone is interesting enough in some way to have a biography written about them. The biography may not be as important or as well read as Churchill, or Lincoln, or Howard Hughes. But what about the everyman (shut up feminists. deal with the fact that I won't say everywoman. or everyperson. we are all man. you can have your womankind. but nobody ever said when mankind and womankind first stood on two legs and fucked)? Isn't the everyman's biography as important as the few who stood out in each generation? But no one person is the everyman. Perhaps a biography of the time would be one large amalgamation of each person. I guess that would be a sort of ubermensch.

I was thinking today of my parents. And the rest of my family. So perhaps, in installments, you will hear about them. About the sacrifices they've made, lives they touch, jokes they told (and still tell) that fall flatter than a pancake, but which we all laugh at anyhow. Perhaps out of them, this little mensch (as my mom would like me to have been raised) can create an ubermensch that explains why I am the way I am. Do I think my tale is any different than the tail of you, or your neighbor? No. But while you may not find it completely interesting, perhaps looking at it in the larger picture will make everything seem, well, understandable and maybe even exceptional. Is this a memoir? No. I am far too young to write my memoirs. I have far to little experience in this world to write a memoir. Perhaps it is the beginning. Perhaps it is a little piece of the larger puzzle of my life. A corner piece. A green corner piece from which the rest grows and fits nicely. But not one of those three dimensional puzzles. They are really difficult and exceptional. I am a normal puzzle. Yes. That will do nicely.