COMING TOGETHER--14

My brother's wife came over to take my mother out to lunch. They're like two cats fighting. They argue over who will pay, they keep accounts against each other--'No, I'll pay, no I'll pay'...and this goes on and on. They both think throwing money around makes them superior to the other. Two controlling women at each other.

Neither one seems to have any notion of forgiveness or love. Neither one of them seems to have any notion of being unselfish.

So I just left them to their stupid fighting. I went away to do some jogging and throw the baseball around a field.

But if I don't forgive them for them being who they are, I would be just like them. I wish my family could actually be a family, not just a forced group standing there, arguing, trying to be superior, being fools.

All of this has made me realize the wisdom of getting away from the past. My sister Nancy got away from here. She married a man who was not anything like her father, she got away from Texas and she has not returned. I wish I had done that, gone somewhere else, been someone else. But it's too late for that.