August 31, 2004
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Memoir coming, but not yet….
I hadn’t realized what a teaser that mention of the Alaska Supreme
Court’s Raven decision (of 1975) would be. BTW, for the curious
who are not up on Alaska law, that decision held that our state
constitution’s guarantee of the right of privacy included the right to
posess and use marijuana in private. It conflicted with federal
law and has never been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction. But I
digress….I spent a pleasant hour with Charley, my ex-husband and Doug’s dad,
yesterday afternoon on my way up to the Sunshine Clinic for meds.
He reminded me of some events I’d forgotten, helped me sort out some
chronology on which I was uncertain, and pointed out at least one place
where I had already gotten the chronology wrong. Last night, I
scanned somewhere between ten and twenty photos that still need to be
uploaded to Xanga, and wrote some text for the first of my new memoir
segments.I’ve decided to divide the next three segments according to where I was
living at the time. This makes chronology a bit simpler to sort
out, since I can usually recall where I was when something
happened. I had moved around a lot and that made chronology
easier to recall, but now I’m getting into time periods after I’d
somewhat settled down. Although I recall many episodic scenes and
adventures, they are more or less jumbled together and not strung out
in sequence in my memory.Before I post the new text, I’m going back to revise the screwy
chronology in several past episodes, and to post some pics that belong
there. Once I do start posting new memoir segments, there will be
at least one and maybe two of them before I get to legal weed and the
weirdness that surrounded it. Hang in there. I fell asleep
last night thinking about those times about thirty years ago, and woke
with a memory that hadn’t surfaced until now, about The Mother Earth
News and back-to-the-land movement. I hope that some of the fun
I’ll be having with this gets communicated to some of you.
Comments (4)
Looking forward to the memoirs.
oh you…i’m dying to read the new installments but you know that right?
i never remember the chronology of events that have happened when i was younger. I actually don’t remember that much of my childhood.. maybe it is better that way ? heh. yes, post more pics! I love looking at pics.
The Mother Earth News… I remember that.
1975…I remember that, too. Was the year I graduated from high school.