At 72, Christie Brinkley offers a quiet counterpoint to the age of digital drift: that family closeness among adults is not accidental but cultivated, through open doors, unhurried rituals, and the hard-won wisdom that time with those we love is always finite. The loss of both her parents within two months in 2012 sharpened what her own upbringing had already taught her — that togetherness must be tended like any living thing. Her three grown children still come home on weekends and holidays, not out of obligation, but because she made home worth returning to.