- 10:55 AM, Monday,
March 28th, 2022:
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- So
sweet....
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- Very interesting
having a side of the family that is super private.
I mean they do have a YouTube channel so I guess
they're not that private, but Tim (their father and
the person I grew up with like a brother) most
definitely is. So this entry feels super eggshell-ish,
but I've decided I'm just gonna write it like normal,
then reread it and see if it should be
ammended...
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- My mother and I
are kinda nuts. Admittedly. We're emotional, we talk
about those emotions often... in fact, that's The
Journey: me working out my shit. The fact that anyone
else can read this is simply a form of accountability
for me and the numbers are sooooooooooooo low, it's
clearly not for attention. I just enjoy the
discipline, it makes me a better human.
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- Her brother Tim
however, not so much. Surface, surface, surface -
avoids any conflict within seconds and I've known this
about him for 35 years. We get along fine, but there's
a limit to your connection and I let go of trying to
have that connection around 2005/2006. Wasn't gonna
happen, we were different peeps. That's what makes the
world go 'round.
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- Vienna and Cameron
are quite a bit like me and their nana and... well
most kids: they emote. Shit has to happen for you to
avoid emotions, ya know? You aren't born that way. So
when Vienna started watching Lila and Elsa's
stop-motion channel she wanted to write to them and
they wrote back! It was a "bring a tear to your eye"
moment for me as no matter the lack of connection with
Tim... he's still the only person I grew up with. I
have dozens of great childhood memories, it was simply
as adults where it was clear we just didn't really
mesh.
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- But now there's
this... and much to my relief - the kids all got along
great. I was really, really, really worried about
the age differences. Early teens... kind of a
crapshoot, right? Kids 8-9 look up to them and they
most assuredly look DOWN to them... and that just
wasn't the case with Lila and Elsa. So much so, I will
absolutely need to make certain they're in town when
we visit because the kids would be CRUSHED if they
didn't see them. That's just awesome and all I
could've hoped for.
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- So here's to the
younger generation, teaching us a few lessons! Can't
wait to reconnect again...
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- Adam
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