Family Together, We Have It All
- Katerine Chung Chen
- May 18, 2017
- 1 min read
“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten.” - Lilo & Stich
Today is Visit Your Relatives Day! This another unofficial holiday that encourages you to visit our relatives and loved ones. This day is intended to give you the opportunity to get closer to our relatives and to build (or rebuild) family ties and relationships.
Nowadays, since it is common to let busy lifestyles take over, it is easy to lose touch with the people we care about. Sometimes, you only get to see your family around the holidays. And if they live really far away, you may not get to see them at all. In case you cannot visit your relatives today, we suggest you call them and/or send them a card. A visit can be a phone call or a face-to-face live chat on the computer. With today’s advanced technology, you can communicate with loved ones that live far away with a simple tap on your smartphones. It makes you feel that they are close, even if they are miles away. Life is too short to not make time for family.
Your post “Family: Together We Have It All” brings to mind something I’ve learned from publishing: that every book is a family of ideas, characters, images, and moments that need to be nurtured in relationship to each other. I once had a manuscript with fragments I loved—familial memory, small moments, emotional arcs—but they weren’t yet talking to each other. Working with a writer, we threaded connections, deepened echoes, and let quieter passages rest beside louder ones so the whole could feel coherent and alive. That kind of delicate weaving—honoring each part while shaping a lasting whole—is what I believe book publication services do when they do their best: they help a story become more than the sum of its pages.