Too Easy (A Flap Tucker Mystery Book 2)

by Phillip DePoy

  Pevus poked his wife. “I’m just thankful the girl looks like you an’ not me.”

  She giggled. She was very content. He squeezed her. He was very happy. What could I say?

  “Well ... thanks, kids. I am honored. Dally will be too.”

  Pevus nodded. His work was done. They headed off around the side of the shed where Rusty kept his stuff. It was one of the images out of my little vision thing from months before.

  I called out after them. “By the way? I kind of wish I’d gotten a chance to thank Ronnie for fixing my car. Runs great now. I don’t ever have to stop on the side of the road anymore.”

  He turned and smiled softly at me. “That’s good. I miss Ronnie. You know him. He’s prob’ly off on some bad deed or other wherever he is. I’m happy the car still works good, though. Never can tell what kinda people might happen by when you’re stranded on the side of the road.”

  *

  I guess when it’s all said and done, it’s important to remember your family, no matter how loony they are. That’s the thing about the family folklore. No matter how odd it seems, it’s got to be passed down, from one person in the family to another, through time and through space. It has a reality to it that nothing else has — something you’ve actually touched with your own hands, or spoken with your own voice. Why do you have to do it? Because it’s essential when you’re trying to figure out something about yourself. And take it from me, the unexamined life is not even worth sleeping through.

  But there are two kinds of families, see. One of them you’re born with. It’s a biological event and there’s no squawking about that, you’ve just got to take it. But the other kind is your spiritual family, if you don’t mind my putting it that way. Those are the people you find — or the people who find you — the ones you’re supposed to be around. Those are the people you have dinner with, the people you count on, the people you listen to when they tell their stories. In short, those are the people that something tells you to love. What else can you do?

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