Lessons from the country

When it comes to country kinfolk, there were plenty to go around when I was growing up. Born and reared in Dallas, it wasn’t far from where my cousins lived. Just 50 miles from Big D, most of them were in Mabank, Kemp and Gun Barrel City back when Cedar Creek Lake was becoming a man-made lake in the early 1960s. There were 10 in my mother’s family - four of them uncles. One of them, Pat, would tel…