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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gauguin who wrote (41494)	11/10/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Sure, sure--- I see over 150 posts here--I bet there's not a tear for me in the bunch....... penni who? I had a GREAT trip- you would have LOVED it. It was-- all about the things we treasure here. I was with my dear friend who lives next to our old house, who sat with me through many hours of my mother's final illness. We drove into the country and visited a woman who paints china, and we went to the old Wade's Mill, where they still grind flour and have a fully functioning mill, and an herb farm, and we went to a lecture at VMI on "postbellum freed people of color". We went to the two bookstores in town, seeing people we knew everywhere we went, I came back with a huge bag of books of course. And we saw the Lula Washington Dance Troupe at W&L. I took wildflowers to my mother's grave, and sat in the sun and read to her for an hour, a piece by Anne Tyler about writing. She quoted a poet who said that writers had to have had rheumatic fever as children--- which I did-- but that she(Tyler) didn't, that she thought it was people who went through a childhood experience of separation from the world in whatever way, who turned into the observers and recorders. This is something TC and LLR and you and I have discussed, alienation of some type in childhood taht made us somehow feel removed-so that was interesting... my mother liked it too, although she argued with me about being isolated. My father didn't say anything, but he never really did. Then I visited the library where the children's room is named after Mother. LAter that day I sat with the women who were my lifeline during her illness, and we talked and talked-- and it was REAL talk. Not talk about decorators, or money, or status, but about- the basic things- people and family and relationships- it all sounds so corny. But I feel so grounded again. It was like plugging in to something elemental and true. ANd there is no place on Earth as beautiful as the Blue RIdge. So what's new? Is everyone all right?