Spoken word by the spiritual poet

During this season, let us reach out, rekindle and revive our relationship with family outside the picture frames of the past.

“We Are More Than Pictures In A Picture Frame“

Remember when family shelves littered with nuggets of nostalgic moments, speaking a thousand words in various shapes, sizes and colors, capture cinematic suspended snapshot slideshow of faces, voices and loud jubilant laughter behind soundproof airtight glass inside beautiful embossed borderlines and boundaries of big beveled picture frames that captured our glowing gaze, yesterdays and yesteryears. This Godsent goldmine tucked away in our parents’ home is an amazing treasure trove of life and times overlooked, given a cursory glance, boxed up, buried in basements and archived in attics as irrelevant relics of faded back-in-the-day antiquated dusty poor folk, home folk and old folk ways.

Remember, we need not remain confined within the context of borderlines, boundaries and framework of embossed big beveled picture frames. We need not remain confined within the context of borderlines and boundaries of cinematic suspended snapshot slideshows cycling through memories of endearing indelible life and times. We need not remain confined within the context of borderlines, boundaries and gated communities that consists only of the essential, immediate and the nucleus family. And we need not remain confined within the context of borderlines, boundaries and border walls to fend off family indignation, family ignorance or family indifference. It is essential that we see the extensive expanse of family interconnectedness, family intra-dependency and family interdependency intertwined and threaded throughout the intergenerational family’s root experience. Family, spanning space and time, borderlines and border walls swelling well beyond the safety, security and independence of self-made legacy derived during the breadth of our shelf life.

Remember, with great excitement and optimism, let us not be afraid to breakout and breakaway from the standalone family picture frames and branch beyond safety and security of bold borderlines and beveled boundaries to bond anew with family in the name of family. Let us not be afraid to breakout and breakaway from the framework casings, comfort and resignation of past moments, past memories and past morrows and create afresh new nights, new nova and new nostalgia with family in the name of family. Let us not be afraid to breakout and breakaway from the borderlines and boundaries of yesterdays and yesteryears and rekindle anew the legacy lifeline of building bridges of opportunities and future possibilities of greatness for our children, children’s children with family in the name of family. And let us not be afraid to breakout and breakaway and take a quantum leap of faith across the great divide between standalone family picture frames to stand strong shoulder-to-shoulder, breast-to-breast and heart-to-heart with family in the name of family.  As we build upon the very fabric and foundation of our lives, family relationship. For we are of the same offshoot, origin and rich root which began the birth of an amazing great extended family. For we are more than pictures in a picture frame.