Redemptive Explosives
July 2nd, 2007
For 4th of July this year I’m taking the kids (Shannon has to work through the end of the week) to Walla Walla Washington, where my brother’s in-laws live. Every year this part of my family gets together for a big party and liberally uses explosives all around the cattle ranch, and this year we will do that again.
This year, though, we’ll have one major difference – Big Ed, the patriarch of the family (and my brother’s father-in-law) passed away earlier this year.
There was some discussion in the last few weeks about what the family should do this year – fresh with grief, it’s hard to imagine things ever being the same. But the decision was made that the family should do what it does to enjoy itself.
I look forward to being with family and, in a redemptive and celebratory manner, blowing things up in Big Ed’s name, and telling stories and laughing with a grieving family.
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