My chapter 2 is our event venue. We're in our fourth year now and getting closer to being self-sustaining with the event rentals. My dream is to have it double as a space for the community to come out for art nights, storytime, songwriter sessions, tutoring, and just plain old social events!
Holly, I just love that! I think it is so wonderful that you and your family are building community, bringing people together in celebration. I love the direction you are going too with the art nights, stories, songs, tutoring, and social events!
I just love your dream, Mary! This place sounds like “safe ground”—a place to connect, regroup, and thrive! I’d love to be a part of your dream. My second chapter, as you know, includes my genealogical research and documenting their stories. And, while I’m well on my way, I have so, so much more to go. They told their stories, so I could tell mine. I hope I make them proud! ❤️
I love your Chapter 2 and I know you are making your ancestors proud. I am so excited to hear/see what you have discovered! Their names will never be forgotten/unknown again and that is soooo important.
Had a friend from high school that I reconnected with years later on FB. She got pregnant right after high school and married her loser boyfriend...then cheated on him with the guy who ended up being the guy who taught me scuba diving (he was married at the time, too...and 20 years older than she was)....anyway., long sordid story but she came from a nice Catholic household, the only girl with four brothers. (I dated one of her brothers and on one of our dates, he turned to me and patted my belly, telling me to make sure it didn't get too big...this was back when I was a size 8)...oh...i digress trying to get all my issues in here.
Anyway, we reconnected on FB and I realized that she and her two brothers that I knew (another one besides the one I dated was a friend in high school) were all raging republicans. This was before Trump was elected.
This friend has always had a hard time. At this point I think she was on her third marriage with two school aged kids. She'd worked on and off for years.
So when the March on Washington happened for the day after the Trump inauguration (I had many friends go, I'm sorry/not sorry I didn't go because I hate huge crowds but would still have loved to be involved) there was a flurry of push back from the right wingers about all of the women being in DC vs being home taking care of their families or being at work. This friend posted something that said, to the women in DC: Get a Job!
(Like they didn't already have jobs that they took leave from and paid money to get to DC to protest!!)
Anyway, unfriended her that day.
Sorry for the ramble. Been sitting on that one for almost 6 years. We were good friends. Went diving in the Bahamas together. I enjoyed her company. But in the rear view now.
Wow! This is a story and a half! The harsh judgment of others is a hard pill to swallow. How odd for her, who had been through (I am sure) such judgment herself, to impose it on others? Ahhh...the March on Washington...I thought about going but decided against it as I was not sure what the goal was. I cried and cried when I read that he had been elected by the Electoral College. The upcoming election cycle scares me.
What a wonderful idea! Christina can design the building, Kath can sing beautiful music now and then, and maybe I can provide the child care. Although the parents might wonder where their kids learned, "Move with a purpose!"
My chapter 2 is our event venue. We're in our fourth year now and getting closer to being self-sustaining with the event rentals. My dream is to have it double as a space for the community to come out for art nights, storytime, songwriter sessions, tutoring, and just plain old social events!
Holly, I just love that! I think it is so wonderful that you and your family are building community, bringing people together in celebration. I love the direction you are going too with the art nights, stories, songs, tutoring, and social events!
I just love your dream, Mary! This place sounds like “safe ground”—a place to connect, regroup, and thrive! I’d love to be a part of your dream. My second chapter, as you know, includes my genealogical research and documenting their stories. And, while I’m well on my way, I have so, so much more to go. They told their stories, so I could tell mine. I hope I make them proud! ❤️
I love your Chapter 2 and I know you are making your ancestors proud. I am so excited to hear/see what you have discovered! Their names will never be forgotten/unknown again and that is soooo important.
Oh...the Get a Job comment.
Had a friend from high school that I reconnected with years later on FB. She got pregnant right after high school and married her loser boyfriend...then cheated on him with the guy who ended up being the guy who taught me scuba diving (he was married at the time, too...and 20 years older than she was)....anyway., long sordid story but she came from a nice Catholic household, the only girl with four brothers. (I dated one of her brothers and on one of our dates, he turned to me and patted my belly, telling me to make sure it didn't get too big...this was back when I was a size 8)...oh...i digress trying to get all my issues in here.
Anyway, we reconnected on FB and I realized that she and her two brothers that I knew (another one besides the one I dated was a friend in high school) were all raging republicans. This was before Trump was elected.
This friend has always had a hard time. At this point I think she was on her third marriage with two school aged kids. She'd worked on and off for years.
So when the March on Washington happened for the day after the Trump inauguration (I had many friends go, I'm sorry/not sorry I didn't go because I hate huge crowds but would still have loved to be involved) there was a flurry of push back from the right wingers about all of the women being in DC vs being home taking care of their families or being at work. This friend posted something that said, to the women in DC: Get a Job!
(Like they didn't already have jobs that they took leave from and paid money to get to DC to protest!!)
Anyway, unfriended her that day.
Sorry for the ramble. Been sitting on that one for almost 6 years. We were good friends. Went diving in the Bahamas together. I enjoyed her company. But in the rear view now.
Wow! This is a story and a half! The harsh judgment of others is a hard pill to swallow. How odd for her, who had been through (I am sure) such judgment herself, to impose it on others? Ahhh...the March on Washington...I thought about going but decided against it as I was not sure what the goal was. I cried and cried when I read that he had been elected by the Electoral College. The upcoming election cycle scares me.
Yeah, me too. Our blindly ambitious governor is extremely dangerous, and does everything to appeal to the right wing, nut job republican base.
I love your idea! Helping Mama, helps the children and their children and helps the world!
Thank you, Rick! Yes! I am sure it would work that way.
What a wonderful idea! Christina can design the building, Kath can sing beautiful music now and then, and maybe I can provide the child care. Although the parents might wonder where their kids learned, "Move with a purpose!"