{"id":849,"date":"2010-01-26T20:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:06:32","slug":"fruits-and-nuts-and-flakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Fruits and Nuts and Flakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

My cousin Stephanie comes from my father’s side of the family.\u00a0 Among that group is my father’s Uncle and Uncle’s wife who founded the Carl Yung (famous\u00a0shrink guy) \u00a0Institute of Santa Monica.\u00a0\u00a0My uncle’s wife\u00a0is Jewish so I have all these Jewish cousins.\u00a0 My Paternal grandfather (who may not have actually been my biological grandfather) was a guru in the 70’s.\u00a0 My Dad’s brother and sister-in-law are now Buddhists.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And my father’s recently deceased older brother left the USA for tax evasion reasons, moved to Venezuela where his wife had an affair with a local doctor… had a child by that man, then another child by my Uncle and then when the two divorced my Uncle kept custody of the son NOT his, while his wife took his son back to England with her. \u00a0\u00a0 I wish I’d know Ian wasn’t really my cousin… he was hot!\u00a0 (He committed suicide over a girl in his late 20’s)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have I said crazy runs in my family?\u00a0\u00a0 Funny thing is, medically it runs on my mother’s side NOT my father’s side.\u00a0 My entire family lives the Southern California saying.. fruits and nuts and flakes.\u00a0 My second cousin, once removed or whatever was gay and died of Aids.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Christmas Eve parties involved so many traditions we kind of tossed most of them out and just enjoyed each others company.\u00a0 Christian, Jewish, Crystal Worshiping Spiritualists, Vegetarian & Carnivore all gathered together as family!\u00a0\u00a0 Pass the Eggnog and add the liquor, liberally!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My mother’s side.. where the crazy truly comes in…\u00a0 mostly fundamentalist Christian.\u00a0 Literally… pastors, their wives and kids.\u00a0 And mostly Republican because of it.\u00a0 Because for some reasons many fundamentalist Christians believe morals should be involved in politics.\u00a0 Hello!.. There are not morals in politics!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top everything off… my father’s family loves my mother.. tolerates my dad.\u00a0 My mother’s family.. understands my dad more since he’s also become a Republican Christian.. (he was always a Republican.. but became a Christian when I was 16).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My sister married a Navy doctor who’s specialty was so lucrative they<\/strong> bought a home in the San Diego area in a big sub-division.\u00a0 In the front of the sub-division is a sign advertising “Homes in the low Millions.”\u00a0 (I died laughing when I saw that.)\u00a0 They also, unsurprisingly, have found God and Republicanism to their liking!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Since I’m a bit of a Heathen, mostly, I fit right in with my father’s side of the family!\u00a0 Happily and firmly in the fruits, nuts and flakes category.\u00a0 Although nothing brings me more fun than to be exceptionally happy living my “Oh My God, you’re doing WHAT!”\u00a0\u00a0 lifestyle in the group of fundamentalists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Concern for my soul is such a funny look to see on people’s faces!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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My cousin Stephanie comes from my father’s side of the family.\u00a0 Among that group is my father’s Uncle and Uncle’s wife who founded the Carl Yung (famous\u00a0shrink guy) \u00a0Institute of Santa Monica.\u00a0\u00a0My uncle’s wife\u00a0is Jewish so I have all these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}