| It's now nine years since the first time that my daughters and I rented a house in the country and spent a long summer weekend there together. This weekend we returned to the same house we have rented for the last four or five years. It's in a particularly beautiful part of south-east Pennsylvania, and it is easy to get to both from DC and from Philadelphia. . We cooked and ate, we put together enormous jigsaw puzzles, we ran and swam and played frisbee, we sang, and most of all, we talked. We all come together only a few days every year, and I don't think it's going too far to call such times sacred. Certainly, when I look up and see my whole family around me I feel that I am the most fortunate man in the world. |
| Created on 25 June 2023, updated on 6 August 2023 by Samuel Ethan Fox |