Got to see Jay, fresh in from South Africa, while we were in Oklahoma City. He brought a disc with about 200 pictures of Anna on it and we all crowded around Josh's Mac (he brought the whole thing) ooohhing and aaahhhing. Cute kid. Melani was sorely missed, only a few more months until that wonderful accent is heard on this side of the Atlantic. Jay had tons of great stories and plenty of thought provoking insights, he was very homesick though and ready to get back to his girls. The entire family had a great time, Granny Betty, my grandparents on my dad's side, mom and dad, and all the brothers, wives, and children were together once again. I don't think we've had that much fun since Brad's wedding. Thursday night we played a great round of Loaded Questions and laughed till it hurt. With all the fun memories lingering in my head it was, for the first time in forever, very hard to get back to work on Sunday night. I just wanted to savor it a little bit more.More Helprin, this from The Pacific and Other Stories and very appropriate considering the great picture of Anna: "I think we are in a lost age, in which holiness and charity have been traded for the victory and penetration of knowledge, though all the knowledge in the world has not brought us any further than where we can go without it even in the outermost halls of grace. I believe that more is to be known and apprehended from the beauty of a face than in delving, no matter how deep, simply into how things work, no matter how marvelous that may be. The greatest substance of the world is immaterial; the province of the heart, and its study cannot be forced or reasoned. Merely to touch upon the edge of things in parsing their mechanics is to forswear their fullness, for the entry to this fullness lies not in science but in art."
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great to see JayMan and his family. Sound like the get-together was a real blast.
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