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We have lost all my close family. Whether it is my advanced age or our family's recent poor luck at surviving, the Aunts and Uncles that I picture when I think of family are gone and only their children, who we always saw growing up, but who I don't even have phone numbers for now, are left. I don't know if they are still married (one was having trouble) or how many kids they may have... Been three years now I think since I saw them. I have one remaining Aunt, the one who is just to mean to die, though she is likely in pretty poor health.

Seems artificial to invite them, though they would definately come. Should I make this attempt to continue these ties? Grandma and Mom would say yes, but I just don't see this generation continuing the ties we had, with or without this reunion. We had them over once in the summer and once around Christmas the first few years after Grandma died. They loved coming back to the beach house then... But the calls have stopped now. They don't know where I live or anything about me.

They don't know where I live or anything about me.

A lot of my family is that way. People that I was very fond of in my younger years. And now, time has made them so distant, that despite the fondness I once had, there seems to be no point in trying to make contact. Grama would be disappointed in me saying that. But, much as I love her, I am NOT her.