Thought for the day:
With the approaching of Autumn her memories float to beautiful times spent at the family cottage in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, enjoying the magnificent coloured leaves, long walks down the country roads, and the breeze from the crisp Fall air. Thoughts of what once was her 'family' cottage can still ignite, for her, good memories of family time, of siblings, children and grandchildren growing up and family social gatherings. However, unfortunately, their cottage also became a topic that led to the most awful and controversial family dispute that has resulted in family members not talking to her and ultimately, the family was ripped apart. How unfortunate that the cottage became a contentious issue when siblings could not find common grounds on which to agree. As siblings in a once close-knit family, there should have been efforts made to love unconditionally and agree to disagree with each other without such a negative result - a result that has stolen away, from all of them, the bindings that were meant to hold a family together. Painful sibling issues can, with the right motives, be repaired, but time has been stolen and can never be returned, How very unnecessary. How very sad.
