Yesterday was the most delightful afternoon in literally years. J Abel asked B parsons and I to go to see the all woman acting troupe "Woman's Will" perform "The Taming Of The Shrew". What wonderful powerful actors were these women. So good that I never minded that everyone was female. Petruchio played by El Beh-she was so "duded up" in her words that I was never uncomfortable. Everyone was wonderful and powerful and I laughed and meditated on the theme as presented: Petruchio will be "tamed" in "taming his delightful,wonderful, exciting shrew". the only time I was outside the spell these women wove was to think "and they memorized all these words so well that they can just sling them out".
after the performance-outside in John Henckle park amphitheater Judy offered to treat us to lunch/supper. We wanted to go to California Thai on SP Dam Rd but it was closed so we went to a Chinese resturant and were surprised to have stumbled on to a wonderful little place. The hot and sour sou was fresh as was everything. There was a feeling of humble pride in their establishment. HMMM! Can one say humble pride? but there it was-loved it. Plus we three women are all retired EW/SWs and from the news and indicators actually the end of a dying breed. We were hired and worked as people were still putting the flesh on the liberal ideas that flowered during Johnson's Great Society, the Civil Rights era. the fascists have done a pretty good job of convincing people that welfare doesn't work. It does but it does take money and the citizens have been convinced that welfare is the reason there is not enough to go around-there is rarely any mention of how much the military costs and people are continually fired up to be on alert for the evil monsters waiting just out of sight to kill them, rape their daughters and turn their boys into queers.
God I have been so lucky-always enough for education-enough to get me my job as an EW. I lack ambition just wanted to pay the bills and offer protection to my loved ones. I have always had medical coverage for any health issues. I have had wonderful friends who are bright and articulate and always there for me.
Saturn in the 4th ruler of the 9th-not much travel there so I have made my happiness at home
About Me
- Singing Sparrow
- I almost always write in the early morning. I am an aging hippie living with my husband lover, my adult daughter,my almost adult granddaughter looking for her first full time job and my almost teenage grandson and my sister who is 11 months the younger. As the world prepares for a righteous struggle for individual independence and the correcting of the power of corporations to tell how, where and even when to live i seek the lower level where gardens grow and children learn. +++
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