We still have the family dinners, but they're not the same. All the nieces and nephews are now grown and have kids of their own, and most of them don't come around for it. Ours was yesterday at 2 pm, and even I didn't go. I'm not fit to be present around decent, civilized folk, so I stayed home and ate chili.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake