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What a party!
They say time passes faster as you get older, and I would most certainly agree. It is an interesting coincidence that my parents had me at about the same ages and my wife and I had our baby Perin. Becoming a parent for the first time for us has been an incredible experience. But when I was conceived, my dad didn't believe it for quite a while because my sister and brother are 7 and 5 years older than me respectively. My dad thought my mom was joking when she came back from the hospital and said number 3 was on the way.
In our case, some 40 years later, Jennifer and I had tried for four years to conceive, and then after we had completely given up hope, Jennifer got pregnant. I had trouble believing it too, and had to get 100% unequivocable verification from the hospital as well until my brain could process the big news.
My most immediate thought right now is that I hope Jennifer and I are in as good health as my parents Kay and Leo when we are in our 80's.
Having fun and enjoying life most certainly has a great deal to do with longevity.
My sister Kathie hosted a party at her house (the sacred place on Nepahwin Lake where we 3 kids were so blessed to have grown up), and there must have been 60 family members and friends most old and some new, sharing and celebrating the great accomplishment of my parents' 50th anniversary. That was a trip down memory lane for so many, a renewing of family ties and friendships, and a simply wonderful afternoon.
Coming back to Sudbury and its small town lifestyle makes for such a wonderful contrast with the bustle and hustle of modern China. Sudbury is even-keeled, quiet, clean, green, and changing incrementally. Chongqing is literally the Wild West (of China), loud, dirty, grey, and changing exponentially. What Sudbury is, Chongqing isn't, and vice versa. Life in Sudbury can be predictable while Chongqing has, I often say, the best of the best, the worst of the worst, more of each, and it is all thrown together in this big hot pot of every day life. It can be very raw existance, and spontaneity can and often does reign in the supreme.
last modified May 23, 2004 at 17:57
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