3549email from Mom

Sep. 16, 2005

 

 

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "mom
Subject: The altar is finished
To: "evilE 


"Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" is finished. It
turned out pretty good, considering--considering I'm a
positive person, considering I give everyone second
and third and 4th chances, considering I still love
[Brother A], considering I feel sorry for [Rubber Pig] because she's
mentally ill, considering I still feel life is good,
and there's hope for the little girls. But it is a
very dark piece. Maybe you can see it the next time
you visit.

I've written about thirty pages of the second part of
the Hankamer Texas Trilogy--Paris's Wedding--but I
have to change her name. Damn that Paris Hilton!

Greg has been sick since Sunday. I think he's staying
home today and resting over the weekend. Maybe we'll
rent comedies so he can laugh and heal faster. He's
not even eating chicken soup now. Yes, he's that
sick.

I'm hoping that whatever's got him will blow through
with this last bit of rain. The pollution has been
terrible here. He is very susceptible to sinus stuff
and then it gets infected or some virus finds its way
in--you know how Greg had cedar fever for months in
TX.

So, [cousin B]'s going to the REn FAire in Houston with you
and Sweetie. Watch out for the wenches! They will eat
[cousin B] alive. [aunt L] wants to sew him something, so if you
can get [cousin B] to dress up, [aunt L] would love it. She
really wants to do for him, but he's so not used to
that. I think it scares him a little. The only time
his mom was interested in what he was doing, he got
sent to jail. Are you going to any of [cousin B]'s football
games that he has to cover for journalism? What a
hoot!

Has he said anything about wanting to do plays?

I love you very much. Life is good, Mom


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I'm sorry to hear that Greg is sick. Do you think an air filter
would help? They have them for pretty cheap at Costco, I'd be happy
to pick one up and send it or bring it next time I come to visit.

I'm glad you got your altar done. I light candles to St. Alex and St.
Jude every new moon for [Brother A] and sineater. The prayer to St. Alex
says "protect us from liars and witches" and St. Jude, as you know,
is for lost causes. It's also terribly therapeutic to take the empty
candle glasses out in the back yard, put them in several layers of
plastic bags and pound the FUCK out of them with a hammer...

I have a friend whose sister is basically a '[Rubber Pig]' &/or a 'X'--
a drug addict and a prostitute who has had her children taken away by
the state, on the run from the law, out of touch with her family.
She and I have talked a bit about it. She says it's hard to be so
happy and so sad at the same time (she has a new boyfriend and a new
job and a new apartment and she's doing so well...and then there's
this part of her heart that loves her sister and worries and
hurts...)...so we talk about that sometimes.

[cousin B] and I are going to a little bitty faire in Salado on Saturrday,
just for the day. It's called Tablerock Faire. Skye_ds managed to get
the faire to hire her to bring her men and animals up to 'perform' at
the faire--we'll see how that goes. The lady directing "Hamlet" in
the faire's ampitheatre doesn't think horses are appropriate in the
ampitheatre. Skye_ds doesn't think "Hamlet" is an appropriate show for
a renaissance festival (What the fuck??!) but plans to use the stage
and sets for whatever she makes the horses do...so we'll see.

I took [cousin B] to Scarborough Faire for my bday a couple years ago; the
vendors' daughters loved him. I think he's still a bit too young for
the big wenches to seriously hit on him, but you never know. I'll
keep an eye out for him, for sure. He's a bit dangerous, because he
knows he's cute! But we've talked about protection & such...GAH. Talk
about agonizingly agonizing. I don't even want to think about him in
that context, but I know he needs someone to be up-front and give him
information, and he trusts me and listens to me...so I do my best.

He doesn't want anyone to go to the games with him; he really isn't
into that school spirit thing, thinks it's not cool. (he did admit
the pep rally was fun because the band was kind of cool & played "The
Time Warp" from Rocky Horror.) I think if he makes enough friends who
are into it, he'll be more interested. For now, he's doing the big
teen angst too cool for school thing....I hope he figures out it's OK
for him to be a kid & have some fun before he has to grow up.

[aunt L] really wants to be involved with his life; I think he's used to
running on his own and he alternates between liking it and feeling
stifled. I hope he doesn't do anything stupid and rebellious to test
that boundary too hard...and if he does, I hope [aunt L] and [uncle B] come
down hard enough to let him know he can't walk all over them. *sigh*
they've never been disciplinarians, but [cousin B] does need it a bit.

Anyhoo...I'm glad you're well & healing. I love you a lot. Life
really IS good.

If you see her, tell [sister H] we love her and [aunt L] really wants to talk
to her!

=E