of my daughter Theta, partner Kris, dog Louie, and cat Indy
to fill this entire blog with postings titled:
"Kris smiling," and "Theta w/her head turned to the left."
In order to not be too dull and lame I'll just post some occasionally
when an update is in order.
We spent the 4th of July up north in Alexandria with family.
We really really like the dog park by the river, you should come with us
sometime.
Although I am very ignorant about photography, I try to get nice photos through sheer brute strength. Meaning I take and then delete a lot of pictures. It's a process that can very quickly alienate the subject matter if it is living.
Um, toodles.
3 comments:
hello, lovely,
glad to have another string to connect us, even if it is on the internet...
geez, theta is such a KID! although, i'm aware of how long i've been saying exactly that and how i should probably just come to terms with the fact that she did not evolve in super-slow-motion, to accomodate our way-WAY-too-infrequent in-person visits. holy shit, is it really possible that i've only met her once? i am horrified by this entirely new realization. something must be done to rectify that situation.
"family". wow, what a word. i am so indescribably grateful that you have something you can call family, in your world. "2008 can kiss my ass" is my motto for this year of isolation. how do i write about this in fewer than a million words? (i think i did, in real mail, anyway) simply put: i feel like a friendless orphan, this year, and am developing a theory about the role invisibility and lack of basic human interaction play in mental illness and homelessness. sheesh.
on a lighter note, it's exciting to read, simply, that you're devoting so much of yourself to math and science. i am seriously considering taking an intro university math and science program, next fall. it's a bit embarrassing that i'm so old and ignorant (basically, i want to go back to high school and take all of the math and science i never learned, before) but it's far overshadowed by, simply, an excitement to learn! and the really life-changing commitment to the fact that i want to learn things, and i can't learn more if i don't admit how little i know. 9for most of my long life, i have only done things that i was naturally good at, because i was so ashamed and humiliated by my imperfection, thanks to my family. ah, there's that word, again..!)
i miss you, too, jenny. i'm not sure where you're going to wrestle some more time and energy out of, but i'd be happy if someof it was directed to communication, even indirectly via blog. i'm so grateful that we're still in contact at all, after so many years and moves! huh, i just had a flashback to the first time i saw frankie and louis, outside the comet. good thing you had such cute dogs, or we never have met ;) xoxoxoxstefanie
Yes, I too find it interesting the link between "feeling connected" and "healing." I was just listening to something on mpr and there was this doctor talking about how back in the late 70s and 80s getting the diagnosis of breast cancer was really pretty dire. But what they found was this: women who were a part of a support group had an increased surviorship rate of 50%. This rate is the same as the rate that current drug for treating breast cancer can boast. It's amazing how isolation can effect people. We are such dogs. Yeah, family is a big word. I sometimes feel weird using it to describe the 3 of us and lou and indy because I want to say...."but I'm also a daughter! I also have this other family too that isn't other at all, it's the same just not in my house except for kind of in my house because I carry it around with me wherever I go.... " I absolutely loved your letter by the way. And I started one back to you immediately but then it got lost in the school shuffle. I want to finish it. I want to be a pen pal. I also want to visit you...but in Winnipeg. When will you be there again?
Love to you,
Jenny
woah. winnipeg!? wow. well, i don't have any current plans to return, and pretty mixed feelings (half feeling compelled to be closer to my aging family, half feeling hopeless about ever being closer to my family)but let me know if you have a scheme and i'll see what i can do to make it reality. xoxoxostefanie
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