{"id":5261,"date":"2020-08-08T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:20:50","slug":"one-mans-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/one-mans-family\/","title":{"rendered":"One Man’s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backstory for the novel A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Daddy in our midst so tiny, his small frame lost in billowing clothes and an oversized hat, a hunched-over reminder of our own mortality . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The patriarch of an enormous Catholic family turns 88 with children & grandchildren celebrating him. Details of a family still intact just prior to the family’s demise are captured through the lens of one child, returning after years of absence.<\/p>\n

“And yet, everything still in its place. . . details long ago forgotten but instantly remembered around every turn . . .\u00a0Here, as long as the rules were obeyed, the world was kept at bay. ‘Say grace<\/strong>, stack the dishes, don’t forget to say ‘Eternal Rest’.<\/strong><\/em> As if we were still children, as if we, too, were safe from life’s inevitability .<\/strong> . .’<\/em>\u00a0 A moment in the delicious, sad remembrance of an achingly familiar scene just months before irrevocable change.<\/p>\n

Previously published in HERIZONS, in 1999 under the title: One Man’s Family.<\/p>\n