Greeting OG,
Another new guy here. I may have joined yesterday… but I wasn’t born yesterday.
Short story…
About 45 years ago I started attending the annual family reunion. I was 5. I couldn’t wait to get MawMaws sugar pie! Best ever pie! The young kids would eat all the sugar pie. Some Elders couldn’t care less about that sugar pie. Some came just for the chance at pie. Others came to discuss family history. Some came to have a drink and talk to loved ones they never get to see throughout the year. I always wondered what went on in the big hall. Well fast forward 45yrs… I now sit at the round table. Guess what we discuss. We talk about these young kids that eat all the sugar pie. We talk about how things used to be. We retell stories that have been told for generation so the next generation knows who they are and where they come from. I am proud to sit at that table. I make my own sugar pie now days. But I am grateful that MawMaw shared with us how to make sugar pie without withholding that key ingredient so ours wouldn’t be as good as hers!
So in closing… We need new members. We need Elders. I appreciate the Love, Sharing and community found here. Much respect to all who precedes me and to those yet to find this OG home.