cloudy cloudy day
I'm a little ashamed, girls. I've been reading your entries, and I realize that a lot of the memories that you mention I can't summon back. Maybe I wasn't there? Maybe I was there in body, but not in mind? Maybe I just haven't thought about them in so long that they have faded away? I don't know. I do know that as Jennifer said, I kind of bailed at some point. And at the time, I don't think there was much of a choice...we all had to go our own ways. Honestly, I never felt much a part of Marion...the surrounding countryside, absolutely, you guys, yes, of course...but there came a point that I had move on.
In the last 11 years, my adobe hut here in Ecuador is the place I've called home for the longest period of time. I've been moving and looking forward to change almost constantly. And I'm finally ready to slow down and root myself someplace. Looks like the Madison WI, Chicago area...I gotta be close to Ellie and Tim. Do you guys know Tim? He's awesome. They flew me home for the wedding, and I'm so happy for them.
KU was great in a lot of ways, and also really hard. When I got there, I didn't know a soul on campus, at least not anyone that I saw with regularity. And it was great...I got to define myself and try things out that I never could have in Marion. But I never went crazy, really crazy. Unless you count majoring in art crazy. Lesley visited once that second year, when Topher was still in Turkey. I saw Ellie a few times, and then more and more. For a while it seemed like our lives were on this parallel track...we even had long haired biologist boyfriends from New York at the same time, and then moved to Chicago, although for me that was just for a summer.
What else...I've still never owned a car. Word, Lesley, coffee is wonderful...I must start my day with it. Sometimes I swear too much. I was a vegetarion for a while, but not anymore. I admire you guys for being able to hold longterm relationships together. One of my favorite memories is of just me and LeAnn, riding my horse, laughing about plant biology terms that we'd just learned in Mr. Rhodes'class. Xylem! Phloem! And ísn't it interesting that we are the two that have mentioned the importance of growing gardens on this blog?
Okay, gotta go. The rain is letting up, and there's stuff to get done...like, uh, walking home?
Hannah
In the last 11 years, my adobe hut here in Ecuador is the place I've called home for the longest period of time. I've been moving and looking forward to change almost constantly. And I'm finally ready to slow down and root myself someplace. Looks like the Madison WI, Chicago area...I gotta be close to Ellie and Tim. Do you guys know Tim? He's awesome. They flew me home for the wedding, and I'm so happy for them.
KU was great in a lot of ways, and also really hard. When I got there, I didn't know a soul on campus, at least not anyone that I saw with regularity. And it was great...I got to define myself and try things out that I never could have in Marion. But I never went crazy, really crazy. Unless you count majoring in art crazy. Lesley visited once that second year, when Topher was still in Turkey. I saw Ellie a few times, and then more and more. For a while it seemed like our lives were on this parallel track...we even had long haired biologist boyfriends from New York at the same time, and then moved to Chicago, although for me that was just for a summer.
What else...I've still never owned a car. Word, Lesley, coffee is wonderful...I must start my day with it. Sometimes I swear too much. I was a vegetarion for a while, but not anymore. I admire you guys for being able to hold longterm relationships together. One of my favorite memories is of just me and LeAnn, riding my horse, laughing about plant biology terms that we'd just learned in Mr. Rhodes'class. Xylem! Phloem! And ísn't it interesting that we are the two that have mentioned the importance of growing gardens on this blog?
Okay, gotta go. The rain is letting up, and there's stuff to get done...like, uh, walking home?
Hannah
posted by Hannah at 7:34 AM
3 Comments:
Hannah, that weekend I spent with you at KU was one of my favorite weekends ever! I remember that it was cool b/c you and I had not really spent one-on-one time before that. And we went to see Dar Williams in the basement of that church! (Now she's kind of famous, so I love to tell people about that concert). And we had coffee on Mass, I think, and lounged at your schol hall and we ate at Wheatfields.... I LOVED it. I miss Lawrence sometimes as though I went to KU..... and it's mainly because I loved that weekend. Oh, did I say I loved that weekend.:)
And memories are always constructions we make on our own, no matter who was there or when....
Too bad you missed the meaty activism at KU Hannah. It's going like gangbusters now with the war on. There is a new peace rally every two to three days! Even the "Honk for Hemp" guy who hangs on the street corner every Sunday has to vie for attention now. I should take some pictures of it for you, it's crazy/cool!
Actually, Garrett, the year before PC I was there, and I was pretty active in the antiwar movement. I was in the die-in on Mass Street, and I almost didn´t get to come to Ecuador because a friend got arrested at the Dole Center protests. I had to testify for her. I did not, however, participate in the Puke-In that those anarchists had in front of the courthouse, and I have never been an anarchist...
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