What is this all about?

Hello family!

Many, many years ago there was a letter sent out from family members in the Doores (Nanda's) family. They called it the Round Robin. I remember seeing it come around. It was always filled with photos of people I either did not know or had not seen in a long time. It was a lot of fun to hear Allie or Memaw read the letters and tell me what was going on with this relative or that. People I had ties to in one way or another.

I looked up the definition of Round Robin and this is what I found:

The term round-robin describes correspondence to a single address authored or signed by numerous individuals (as found in a petition). Colloquially, however, 'round-robin' is frequently given an opposite meaning, being used to describe a letter with an author copied and sent to multiple recipients. For example, the sending of family news at Christmas. In sport, round-robin refers to every player or team in a group or pool taking turns to play one another a set number of times. In aviation, a round-robin flight is a cross-country flight which starts at one airport, travels to several other points for fly-over or touch-and-goes, and returns to the airport of origin.

This definition would fit what that package of letters represented. Taking your turn sending out joys, concerns, photos, updates and sending them on for the next family member.

We now have the wonderful convenience of the internet. I don't know much about blog sites, but from what I have read here, we can all add copy and photos thus reactivating the tradition started generations ago of The Round Robin.

Try it, take the time to read the entries of others and add your photos and updates on what is happening in your lives. I am over 50 now so I can say something like "I have come to realize over my years the importance of relationships." We can't always take time or travel over the distance to see each other but let's try this, to keep in touch and thus keep our relationships closer.