A Conversation with
Elizabeth
1998
Not much
From:
Elizabeth
To:
LMixson@PEC.com
Sent: Wednesday,
July 15, 1998 4:59 PM
Subject: Not much
So you have like a bike trailer that pulls behind the SUV? Is that
it? Your trip sounded like fun. I like the idea of doing
things sort of ritually every year. I'm slowly forming some small
rituals of things I like to do here every year. One is the annual
Lenten concert at one of the downtown churches. They have the huge
organ. I wrote to you about that. Also, the Sierra club does
sort of annual trips. I know what you mean about the pile up
though. Near Montgomery there is a river that has a fairly highly
graded rapids (I forget what the system of grading is)and I canoed it
once with the Sierra Club. Even with 6-7 canoes, there was quite a
pile up and wait. I forget the name of the river. I think
its the Ocoee. One thing I learned on that trip is tying two
canoes together side by side and canoeing that way. I'd never seen
that done but the guide did it to give a more stable vehicle to the
inexperienced.
A photogenic opportunity--so off comes the helmet.
I made a mistake. The lawyer didn't write me again. I had
moved his letter, I thought, to a file, but for some reason it showed
back up in my in box and I thought he had written again, but he did not.
Whatever came of the Wendy contact? I asked some time back and you
said you hadn't heard. It would seem to me she would be eager to
make contact. I keep looking for one or two friends from the U of
F/UCF time, but I can't find them. They have probably married.
One was in law school and she came to visit me at UCF.
Unfortunately we got into an argument about something and she left, and
I've always wished I had been able to stay in contact with her, but
thereafter I moved around a lot.
I heard the worst thing. A friend of mine, a woman, who just
turned 50 in March, had a heart attack. She was a professor at the
university where I first worked when I came to Montgomery. She got
a women's group going here and I went to many meetings with her.
Also, she wrote me a letter for law school. She had a long
distance marriage for a while as her husband was finishing up his
retirement in Illinois at a college there, then he just moved down here
last year. He started a meditation group which I attended for a
while. She was in the yard gardening and had some chest pains,
which she ignored, because they weren't extreme, but they didn't go
away. She is okay, but apparently is on the strictest of strict
diets. She was kind of the cherubic overweight person, sort of an
earth mother type on whom the weight really looked sort of natural.
I imagine it will come off now. Well, for some reason, people are
coming in, although it is almost time to go. Elizabeth
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