Okay, people gave me their suggestions for taking care of myself in times of cluster bomb events, and it was all good advice. But what did I actually DO? If I am totally honest, the list is pretty funny.
When my mother began to die, I became more observant of everyone else's frailties, in the most corporal sense. But my new sensitivity has been overtaken by actual events, in which people close to me are breaking down, expiring, and cracking their lips faster than i can even take it in. I know that when you reach your senior years, you become accustomed to friends dying. And AIDS made a younger generation an example of that in the 80s. But I wasn't prepared for something else that's happening in middle age, which is that a lot of my friends are getting their ticket punched, and it's not pretty.
hmm, i just selected every single category that has to do with my life, but perhaps that was overdoing it. Yet all these subjects came up today:
Teens, Education, Homeschooling: my homeschooler is trying to crash a class at the local public high school, and although we have every right as "taxpayers" for her to attend, all the b.s. that goes along with their bureaucracy makes you have second thoughts! She thinks it's so funny that the teacher admonishes the kids to be quiet and keep their hands to themselves, stay in their chairs, etc. She's been going to independent classes and community college classes for a year now, and no one ever talks like that. Yet this class is supposed to be this really creative interdisciplinary math class that people vie to get into... had to do an "audition" like it was a broadway show! Maybe it will turn out to be inventive and cool... right now she's just mesmerized by the social scene. They also gave her three hours of homework last night...what on earth? If they spent more time in class doing math instead of worrying about the baby stuff...
