All in the Family

This is, in several parts of Canada and the United States, Family Day. Thus, we thought it right to pay tribute to the great families of history:  the Borgias, the Karamazovs, and, of course, the Addams Family.  Lurch, serve the bats-blood Martinis.

But then, the Digressionist thought it better to salute the seven generations of his family he has been privileged to know, filially and patriarchically, and to them raise his hat (exposing a band of hair-deprived scalp beginning to resemble an airport landing strip).

"And meadow rivulets overflow,

 And drops on gate bars hang in a row,

 And rooks in families homeward go,

      And so do I."

--Thomas Hardy