I could just leave the summer behind without comment but somehow I’m reluctant to do that. And yet it turns out I’m still not ready to speak either.
The Trepal Family (or some of it) July 2010
Daughter # 3 is getting married this month and I’m making her dress. And we hope – perhaps vainly – to take a home assignment January – March. So this semester I’m only taking one class at the university: Japanese Women’s Literature. Today we watched a movie about a darker side of Japanese culture in the early 1900’s and I had enough to say in the subsequent discussion that one of my classmates (a young man from China) cornered me after class, “I don’t understand... “ I don’t either. But I do know that whether its North America, Japan or anywhere at all there’s nothing like a strong family connection to keep a young man or woman from all kinds of trouble.
My New York slum born Grandfather knew that.
2 comments:
Guess it pays to check A Lauries blog every once and a while... I'd never seen that picture of the trepal reunion. I didn't even realize they had one this year. Nice to 'see' everyone again
that was me, Sarah Mae...
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