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Essay: "Celebrations"

by Michael Jerome McKinney

Celebration is some of the "good times" that are shared in so many ways, are the time's when some of the best people you know come together. And the best moments I have celebrated when I was young have been at our family reunion, with my family members, loved ones and friends and long-distance relatives. And this one big special event, that brings me and so many other relatives so much pleasure. When we are sharing so much love amongst each other. And during this time of family social activity be going on around me, making me feel ever so special just as the rest of the family would be feeling. And this family reunion celebration is a very big celebration. Some of the best people I would ever want to meet. And these are the times for me to meet and get to known other parts of my family who I never knew anything about. I heard the names of some of them, I saw pictures of some of them, but never met a lot of them in person. And some I did. But now I have learned this was what the family reunion celebration was for. To meet the unknown and the known family members in a great and special way. With so many hugs, greetings, so much warm embracing, so many family conversations going on all at once. So many smiling faces and so many beautiful faces. So much beauty in the lil kids while they all are running around jumping for joy. Along with mw cause I was also a kid at that time. And we were celebrating the time of our life with all sorts of family members during our family reunion celebration. And this family reunion celebration was held at a big park in Tampa and there were rows of big huts with rows of picnic tables under them and benches. And these huts were full of family members with so much food on each and every table and I mean this is every hut that my family has ever taken up for our family reunion celebration and this was food of all kinds. Some of the best soul food you would ever want to taste. Soul food cooked by so many hands and these are people who took pride in being able to cook all this food for the family reunion and everyone at the family reunion enjoyed being able to eat the big plates of soul food. And all the cookers of this food were finding so much joy in watching everyone in the family eat and enjoy all this good cooked food. And me and every one was eating and looking as we had so much gratitude and was thankful for all the preparation that it had took to bring all this food about, from growing to picking, from cleaning to cooking it, and the food that it was made the family reunion celebration a great moment 'cause it was more food than enough for everyone. And another thing about our family reunion celebration, there were so many beautiful females all over the park, coming up to me from every direction. They were fine and had nice looks about themselves. And I would get to know them by name and they would get to know me by name, then they would bring it to my attention that they were my cousin, and as good as some of them were looking, I was saying in my mind I wish they were not my cousin. And this was what our family reunion celebration was all about.