Joyful Day is a blog about my family. In order to get the most out of it, go back to the earliest entry on March 1, 2010, then proceed forward chronologically. I have traced back in history with some fascinating stories, but the main focus of this blog is the journey toward that future day when a family of diverse individuals from varied backgrounds will find one another and share who we are, where we have come from, and our dreams and desires.

We are all the children of one father, who I am sure was not the father any of us would have wished for...

Yet Lloyd Burwick was an interesting character, to say the least. I found out only recently that he was fond of the theater and participated in a group of actors in Maracaibo, Venezuela through the 1960s and '70s. I never knew this until my Aunt Betty sent me some old playbooks containing pictures of him and his fellow actors. I though it was interesting that one playbill showed a photo of a Carol Howdyshell opposite a picture of my father.

We have Howdyshells in our family history. Was he even aware that one of his fellow actors in a play in Venezuela might have been distantly related? I have seen stranger things happen.