It’s just a jump to the left …
It is so interesting to have a great conversation with the child of a high school friend … who is now the age when I first met my high school friend … and to chat on the phone with her – oh, how’s it going, what are you up to in high school right now, what are you working on right now … oh you’re working on a project about the Middle Ages? Oh, that’s cool … “Actually no, it’s kind of stupid” she said … “Oh, is it stupid? Yeah, I remember stupid projects I had to do, too” … and to have, alongside of that, the image of myself at 14… and my high school friend, now this young woman’s mother …. pressing our hot red Irish faces up against the gym wall during a dance, because we had just danced so hard to Rock Lobster that our heads had become raging hot tomatoes. That hot-red tomato-head now has a daughter. The age that we were back then. And the daughter and I chatted, and laughed, and connected … and I guess it just never ceases to amaze and delight me. You’re my friend’s daughter!!!
I’ve never been called a hot-red tomato-head before. I feel so honored! (sniff, sniff) I suppose that would make Ceileidh a cherry tomato!!
I get the weirdest looks from my 13 yr old daughter when I dance to Rock Lobster.
But she does admit that “Planet Claire” has got a funky beat and she likes to sing along to “Mesopotamia”, so there is some hope for this generation…
Well, they did also do “Song for a Future Generation,” didn’t they? It’s working!
Speaking of teen daughters – mine is pleased to announce that we are no longer “Amish” as we have purchased a high speed connection to the internet.
Betsy – hahahahahaha Amish!!
Welcome to high speed connection land!
Remember when she leaned over and announced that we were Amish at ‘Dreamgirls’ – she was hysterical in that moment.
Oh, that’s right!! That blunt humorous voice, “We’re Amish.” She was hysterical that whole night. It was great.