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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (26010)	11/23/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, now that it is ending for you with CW, a few more details are filtering out. I always think of your household as so healthy and almost perfect, because your writing is so gentle, accepting and deeply understanding that I don't see how even a teenager could turn away from you. I hesitate to write anything here because I don't want to violate my teenager's privacy, and yet I need help from war-weary veterans, so I just try to make it not too personal or revealing of her, and more about what is happening from an adult perspective. Hearing that it is really a survivable experience is a relief. I have tried not to expect too much of my daughter, because too much was expected of me when I was young, and my spirit was wounded. I wanted to design things, and draw, and was jammed so full of academics that my heart hurt. That is why I have always tried to point out that becoming a craftsperson, owning a small business, investing in stocks or real estate are all perfectly good ways to handle the practical part of life and support yourself. My daughter has always wanted to teach kindergarten, and that is just fine with me, even though she would be an excellent attorney (well-honed arguing skills and logical presentations abound around here). How can you and Dan be the Strictest and Most Unreasonable Parents of All Time? I thought we held the title. Maybe there is one pair of ogre parents in each state or something, but the way I heard it, we won the international honors. I have a sash and crown and everything! The thing about the magical and innocent quality of the early years of drug music and poetry is something I remember, as well. I think that is because with Timothy Leary and the professors at Harvard experimenting with hallucinogenics in a serious, therapeutic way, it seemed very constructive at first. And beginning marijuana and acid trips are usually very pure and almost holy. Then you discover that you can see the way to enlightenment but cannot stay there, and it becomes frustrating. Harder drugs entered the picture societally in the late sixties--I remember when a lot of people in the Haight became addicted to speed, and hard criminals moved in, in 1969. The old story of innocence lost, potential unrealized, etc. All the people who experimented lightly with psychedelics when they were very young and came out of it with their lives intact really got the best part of it. I just am relieved that my daughter has absolutely no interest in the music or culture of those times. I would not really be able to explain Woodstock very well to her, while I am trying to stress that teenagers should absolutely take no drugs at all--marijuana because it stops brain development. There are certainly other things about it that are less than fatally dangerous, and soothing to the very ill. I think Rumi must have been a hashish eater!