Posted by on Jun 16, 2015 | 6 comments

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So are you saying that MY family is wacko?

Mama has been discussing with me her propensity for reading books about dysfunctional families—Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight, Leaving Before the Rains Come, most of Pat Conroy’s books, and so many more that deal with real loo-loos (no pun intended). Some of whom would make your fur curl, mama says, and yet, they are fascinating and seductive characters.

Maybe being a little off or crazy is what’s attractive. If you delve into most people’s lives, you would probably find a few skeletons in their closets whose meat you would like to renew!

Mama remembers an uncle whose bottle-thick glasses gave her, as a little girl, the impression that if he only had feelers, he would resemble a curious bug. This same uncle used to asked her and her little cousins to ‘come see if you can find the change in my pockets’…uh, oh.

In retrospect, of course, it all settles in to being humorous and droll and eccentric and one of those memories that help make a story really interesting, and at the time, the kids used to look for the coins, find and grab them, and then run away, laughing their heads off as kids do. Today’s kids would be more aware of an incident like that.  Maybe.  But childhood is so full of funny things and pranks kids play and what they think some event was about is not often about that at all.

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I, for example, am as crazy as the next kitty–only a crazy would lick his/her FEET!

Memory is a funny thing. Mama says all memories are distorted (in good ways and bad ways sometimes) by the remember-er, but it’s sure fun to sit around and remember incidents in a family that horrified, amused, saddened, whatever the emotion, those who were there.

Hmm…maybe I’ll try to remember some of my family’s eccentricities and jot them down. If I can remember having a family!

Some incidents that appear crazy are often hilarious.

Dysfunctional is not always dis-fun-tional!

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