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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
There are people you are connected to in life, and then there are people you are really<\/i> connected to, on a whole other level. For me there are very few people on earth I can say that about.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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