At a recent St. Patrick's day brunch hosted by my taciturn nephew John, a tall blond public high school teacher and coach who has a hilarious but wry sense of humor together with Joy his effervescent wife of two years, an itinerant instructor of modern dance, at their home in Hicksville Long Island we got some, not altogether unexpected yet still exciting news.
In the summer of 2004 my wife and I had driven to Purdue University in Indiana to attend John and Joys wedding. They had been seeing each other for some seven years while Joy worked out her inner conflict over settling down and moving to suburbia after having had an apartment of her own in Manhattan for the last ten years. Her decision may have been triggered after receiving notice from her physician father that he could no longer subsidize her since he was about to retire. Joy was born and raised in that state and her entire family resided within it’s border.
That was the year Judy and I celebrated our forty-second wedding anniversary.
Lynn, Judy’s younger sister and Johns mother, who had just retired flew to Indianapolis airport with two of her four grown sons. That was the first time that the two geographically separated families met.
John was completing his master’s degree in administration and was itching to put it to use. In addition,
his school district had been going through an extended period of tight budgets and the teachers hadn't’t received raises for the last two years.
After the brunch with all of us seated around his living room John stood and announced he had some news. He had been offered and accepted a position to begin in August with the school district servicing the region around Purdue in Indiana.
It stirred up memories of those life reshuffling times when we too set out in new exciting directions.
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