Bonds Tightly Woven

Yesterday was a time of happiness and joy, being with parents and all our relatives, sitting under the grape arbor, grapes brought right from Sicily by Grandma. Many hours of shade, voices speaking Italian in between eating grapes, purple and green, tasty and sweet, even eating the seeds themselves. Such a close-knit family, bonds of us all so tightly woven that no one could ever unravel them, our hearts always with one another through years of growing up. Strengthening our love for each other only, moments of joy in memories, bringing back the love we used to share together. Now all the images that I can see come from my mind interiorly, reality of today not touching any of them, living only in visions and memories, all yesterdays we spent in loving and being close.