Family Portrait

[randy_byers]

This is a shot of my family taken in Hong Kong in the summer of 1968. We took a tour of Asia in the break between my dad's two two-year teaching contracts on Yap. Other places we visited on that trip were Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and I think Singapore, but maybe not.

I wish I knew what was going on the day this photo was taken. My sister looks like she is having a perfect teenage snit fit. Mom looks troubled, maybe a little angry herself. Dad looks pensive, lost in thought. I look worried, hands trying to grasp the situation. My brother looks like he doesn't give a shit about any of it. Strangers in a strange land.

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

My interpretation is that it was my mom and my sister who were fighting, but who knows? We all looked at this picture at some point last year, because it was one in a large poster (actually two posters) of family pictures that my brother put together for Mom. Nobody said that they remembered what was going on.