Posted by gardenergirl on July 24, 2008, at 21:08:55
In reply to Re: Is Babble Dying?, posted by toph on July 24, 2008, at 20:21:10
> To the extent that he is some form of parental image and he provides some kind of psychic glue keeping this all together, it makes me worry about what will happen to my family when my parents die. They seem an irreplacable force holding all the generations together. When they pass I think that many of my siblings will be asking a similar question. Is our family dying?
That's an excellent analogy. Wow, it really hits home with me. As the generation above my mother dwindles, it makes my mother, aunts, and uncles seem so much more vulnerable. Heck, we've even lost one from that generation now. And though I grew up with, for the most part, at least the older generation of my cousins, we are much more scattered and splintered. We rely on our parents to get the whole family together. What will happen when our parents can't or aren't here to arrange that? We talk about making sure we continue to get together, but so far it's only talk.
To tie this to Babble, perhaps as different "branches" and generations of the Babble family become more, diffuse?, we find it harder to come together?
gg
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