Beach Reunion - Two In One
What a week. In the space of a few days, I revisited two very different views of about the same time in my life: one, my LDS side, the other, the small liberal arts school I first and last attended, with a year at Brigham Young University (BYU) in between.
From the LDS side, Jackie and I drove to Rehoboth Beach, DE on June 11th to visit our good friend Lisa from High School (Walt Whitman in Bethesda, MD) and College (BYU in Provo, Utah) who flew in with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and GRANDdaughter from California to spend the week at her family beach house.
Jackie and I have managed to keep our lives true to our East Coast roots, living within a few miles of our childhood homes or in Jackie's case, IN her childhood home. Lisa on the other hand has become "totally California". I mean, look at her. In this picture, where (as an aside) I look terrible and Lisa and Jackie look fantastic, Lisa is hamming it up while Jackie and I manage to maintain some semblance of our East Coast reserve.
All that aside, Lisa is truly an inspiration and for the first time in 30-some years, I felt completely at ease discussing my feelings and observations about my only for
mal religion. I can see why she's chosen to take her show on the road, spreading inspirational messages to all. There is also strength that women friends generate together, especially friends that have known each other from a emotionally charged past. We covered ever topic you could imagine, could have probably stayed up all night talking, but Jackie and I had to go.
My next reunion was at the school where I ultimately graduated in a class of about 260 students. I generally don't see but a handful of people from my class and with the campus changing each year with new buildings, I barely recognized my surroundings. Fortunately the Fedders brothers were in attendance - brother Mark being someone I act
ually dated my freshman year (see photo - I look substantially better in this photo than the one with Lisa and Jackie because I had my hair colored and cut in-between, though an eye-job might make me look more awake). I don't remember much about our time together except that we saw "The Way We Were" the day before I left for BYU.
This is about all the energy I have for this Blog posting.
I want to move on to my Dad's 80th Birthday, which June 17th.
From the LDS side, Jackie and I drove to Rehoboth Beach, DE on June 11th to visit our good friend Lisa from High School (Walt Whitman in Bethesda, MD) and College (BYU in Provo, Utah) who flew in with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and GRANDdaughter from California to spend the week at her family beach house.
Jackie and I have managed to keep our lives true to our East Coast roots, living within a few miles of our childhood homes or in Jackie's case, IN her childhood home. Lisa on the other hand has become "totally California". I mean, look at her. In this picture, where (as an aside) I look terrible and Lisa and Jackie look fantastic, Lisa is hamming it up while Jackie and I manage to maintain some semblance of our East Coast reserve.
All that aside, Lisa is truly an inspiration and for the first time in 30-some years, I felt completely at ease discussing my feelings and observations about my only for
mal religion. I can see why she's chosen to take her show on the road, spreading inspirational messages to all. There is also strength that women friends generate together, especially friends that have known each other from a emotionally charged past. We covered ever topic you could imagine, could have probably stayed up all night talking, but Jackie and I had to go.My next reunion was at the school where I ultimately graduated in a class of about 260 students. I generally don't see but a handful of people from my class and with the campus changing each year with new buildings, I barely recognized my surroundings. Fortunately the Fedders brothers were in attendance - brother Mark being someone I act
ually dated my freshman year (see photo - I look substantially better in this photo than the one with Lisa and Jackie because I had my hair colored and cut in-between, though an eye-job might make me look more awake). I don't remember much about our time together except that we saw "The Way We Were" the day before I left for BYU.This is about all the energy I have for this Blog posting.
I want to move on to my Dad's 80th Birthday, which June 17th.
