Leaves

At Christmas,

when families gather

there is laughter and longing

as stories are unwound about

ancestors

    school days

        children

            grandchildren

future, ideas, plans, beliefs

until we go separate ways at eventide

“…the knowledge of one generation could be handed on to the next, 

so that each age could profit from those that had gone before.”

~ Arthur Charles Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey