AustinGranny.com - Her Story

J R R Tolkien once wrote, "I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe, like good, plain food, detest French cooking, I am fond of mushrooms, have a very simple sense of humor ... go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much."

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
— John Burroughs

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts…
— Mason Cooley

Journal: Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse, a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot album, a history, a travelogue, a letter to oneself — it has some definable characteristics.

It is a record,
an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily daily. Some entries will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the middle of the night. Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself. A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about what you did, as well as what you did, on any given day.

Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony, false.

— Paraphrased from Dorothy Lambert in Ken Macrorie's book, Writing to be Read.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my life and
it's been fun.

"Past the placebo shops....
"Short, straight hair. No make-up.
A face that had been a few places
and only come back from some."
— Stephen Dunn

"I'd give up
Truth and Beauty
for choking
and gasping
on a Harley."

past V.P. of the
St. Louis Chapter of NOW
and once debated
Phyllis Schlafly

Time is a dressmaker specializing
in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin

Picture all of us
as a Garden,
which we are - each of us blooming in our own way and time and color and size, and then fading and being "dead-headed" and put on the compost pile to become rich lovely soil to help others grow their best.

Sixties activist,
bride,
mother,
career woman