Blog post 22- Big family- Chuck Logsdon

When reading the David Brooks essay about the rise of the nuclear family and the fall of multi generational homes and I realized that a lot of what shaped me is living is a big extended family that I see often. Now my actual home just consists of usually just my immediate family and often an aunt or uncle but I have a large group if cousins that, when all in town, spend the majority of our time together. Actually while writing this I am on my cousins farm with 3 other cousins, back after only about a week removed from another week long stint on the farm. Growing up in this large group has definitely shaped who I am today and has helped me to be better at socializing with different people. I have gained knowledge from people hailing from different cultures and life experiences from an Asian-American Lesbian from New York city to a cousins who grew up on a farm in stamping ground Kentucky and ended up living in Greece.