Imperfection

My mother liked to tell her seven children that seven is the number of perfection and completion. Mother died at 98 two years ago on August 1. A little less than a year ago, last August 5, Sharlyn Beth Shaw, our beloved little sister, died. Today we six remaining siblings, feeling acutely incomplete and very short of perfection got together for the first time since Mother's funeral -- we had Beth with us then. There were laughs and tears and good food. So bittersweet -- so good to be together but incomplete.

Here are a few pictures from our get-together at Carol and Ron's lake house near Waverly Hall, Georgia on Sunday, July 23, 2023.