1964
Back to the old drag! Sunday (that’s today!) I went to St. Peter’s Church in Milford. Karen and Ellen said that the service started at 9:30 AM and so they would get me at 10:30. But it started at 9:00 and just lasted 30 minutes. I had to wait an hour before they came. I almost froze! Then we went to the Girl Scout parking lot and Rosemary’s dad drove us home. Bob recorded most of the senior play. He had a small part but I am still sorry I missed seeing him - and V! The Gaffneys came over tonight and we corrupted Kathy by teaching her to play poker.
2016
I wrote in more general terms in an earlier post. So what about me and my politics? Would I have turned out liberal? How liberal? And if I had, where would I belong in North Platte?
Would I have turned out liberal? How liberal?
This is just a guess, but I imagine I would still have grown up to be a liberal, just perhaps not quite as liberal as I am. This begs for elaboration and details. How liberal am I? When I took the various political assessment quizzes that proliferated on Facebook in the last year, I usually scored in the 90's on my agreement with both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
2021
Today I set myself free. I said “no more committees” and resigned from the last one. It felt mostly marvelous, with an occasional twinge of guilt. I didn’t feel guilty for resigning, just for not saying “NO” in the first place.
I have been living outside of my comfort zone for months, playing at extroversion. But I really need to reclaim my time for day dreaming, creativity, introspection, for words, and yarn and flour and yeast.
No More Committees.
I’m done.
2023
The only thing I chair now is adhockery. I am in a group that called itself a committee, but doesn’t act much like one, and I schedule and screen movies once a month for a rather anarchistic assemblage of film goers. Last night we watched “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” - the source of one of my favorite quotations: “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like”. And Maggie Smith is an incandescent goddess, and her clothes in the movie were magnificent.