The explanation is what takes up the time to create, lots of time, but some of what happened is meaningless without the prose. My cousin Robbin Zeff's father Jack is in the clothing business and one of his clients makes Hawaiian shirts, so he found a nice pattern and then got lots of them, all the same. He gave them out at a big family get-together last summer to dozens and dozens of us. My sister has one, my father has one, my cousins do, etc., etc. This is mine.
Some families have crests or tartans.
We have a Hawaiian shirt pattern. On the Salt Lake City to Boston leg of the Delta flight they announced that this was the pilot's last flight before he retired after 33 years. As we approached Boston, the crew put up crepe paper and balloons. Finally, the retiree said good bye and thank you to each of us individually as we walked out. It felt very homey.