Traditions Change Again

I took our annual Christmas family portrait yesterday… as usual it was a time of jubilation… and once again I noticed we're a family in a state of transformation. We've all grown another year older but it really is much more… for none of us are the exact same person we were the year before… School and jobs and life in general alter us a little every day…. This portrait shows us face-timing with the three of our family members who've moved away. We couldn't all get together this Christmas which is why we had to Zoom… but their laughter and their love…even in two dimensions found their way into the room. As our family has grown and changed…as all families do the traditions we make along the way…must change a little too. As we find new ways to get together…before we know it…lo and behold new traditions like phoenixes….emerge from out the old. As I looked at my family through the camera as they all came into view… I realized what's important isn't how we get together… what's important…is that we do. MERRY CHRISTMAS!