Thursday Sep 04, 2003

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this journal entry is going to be dedicated to my grandma.. she died when i was 13 but was one of the best women i have ever had the pleasure to know. the whole point here is that i am planning a trip to where she lived when i was growing up.. she was a mennonite and lived on a little commune farm it was awesome and some of my fondest memories come from there. I looked it up today and they have their own web page and directions. i am going to take my nieces and nephew with me to be able to get a sense of the life their great grandmother lived.. they are young but i plan to go pick strawberries there every summer from now on. that was my favorite part of the summer. they had these huge fields and people from town would come pick buckets full.. i am finding now that i get older family is becoming much more important even tho it has always been first on my list it has taken on a new meaning.. sorry for the boring entry today but it was just on my mind.. hope all is well
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ravensfeather:
i remember you telling me about your grandma, she sounds like she was a very nice woman =) i hope eveything is going well on your end desilou, i am gonna call ya on sunday and prob hang out! =) hope all the people in your house are not driving you crazy

much love
ayin:
Its funny the things you realize as you grow older; like, when I was a teenager, I hated my family, you know? I was completly embarassed by them, because I thought they were all either podunk white trash or (their were a few who were, polarly) rich, lazy blue bloods. When I grew up and moved out of my parent's house, I started to realize just how hard it is to live as an adult, and therefore, how much of what I thought about my family was just self-projective denial and me looking for a reason to pick an emotional fight with...well, myself, more than it was truth. Its good you have those connections within your family; be proud of them. Just make sure any family tradition you choose to start always has a reason behind it, and that it can still be questioned if it doesn't. Not that strawberry picking is a particularly dangerous activity, but traditions....have a way of getting out of hand sometimes....

[Edited on Sep 06, 2003]

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