Cousin

My cousin is visiting now, staying in NY for a few days, crashing at my place. It’s a real treat for me, because he lives far away, so we don’t get to see each other very often.

We’ve been chatting up a storm, having intense discussions about all sorts of ideas, people, politics, inventions, movies, pretty much everything under the sun. Just like we always have.

He and I are pretty much the same age, so our memories go way back. When we were both five years old there was a big old tree in the place out in the country where our families would go each summer. My memories of us trying to climb that tree — and then eventually succeeding in climbing that tree — are as vivid today as when it all happened.

There are people you are connected to in life, and then there are people you are really connected to, on a whole other level. For me there are very few people on earth I can say that about.

When you have the pleasure of getting to spend true quality time with somebody like that, it can really make you appreciate, all over again, the wonderfulness of life.

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