Celebrating Aunt Ruth

She left me at 3:30 this morning for the airport to catch the first flight to the East Bay.I understand that four generations gathered in Lafayette from lots of places to celebrate Aunt Ruth with words, tears, rich foods, good wines and general conviviality. She tells me she met a second cousin, and reconnected with lots of Clemens cousins and their children and children's children. She met her cousin's patients who were all friends of his mother. She met golfers and bridge players and talked a lot about Pope Francis. She thinks Aunt Ruth and Uncle Sam would have been very proud of their work.