Very nice Annette. I will turn 85 next year and have experienced eight decades of incredible change: personal, local, political, global even universal. I do remember listening to some FDR fireside chats in 1943-1945 on our huge radio, listening to Walter Winchel bringing us the news from both fronts and praying for my family members and neighbors fighting in Europe and the Pacific. Compared to that start of my life, the present doesn’t seem so horrendous. But I do sympathize with your concern.
First, it's hard to believe you will be 85, moving faster than the speed of light. Second, I can only imagine those days of wartime, hearing the stories from my parents, wondering what would happen to families on the other side of the conflict, as well as their own. Thanks for this simple reminder. I worry less about the present these days, than do I do about the future (but also thankful, for now, we have a future to concern ourselves with).
Thanks so much for writing this. I'm trying so hard to process my feelings but I keep shifting between extreme anger and despair. I feel so much anger for those that are enjoying the hard won benefits that brave activists secured for them and yet have turned around and are allowing them to be stripped away. Your eloquent voice is so important.
Thank you always for reading! I can only imagine your anger, growing up in a slightly different generation. The number of women who broke through before me in computer science. The women that are still trying to break through. At this point, while I can give my time away to any number of orgs, I'm trying to find a way to make this work of writing work for the better. Miss you!
Very nice Annette. I will turn 85 next year and have experienced eight decades of incredible change: personal, local, political, global even universal. I do remember listening to some FDR fireside chats in 1943-1945 on our huge radio, listening to Walter Winchel bringing us the news from both fronts and praying for my family members and neighbors fighting in Europe and the Pacific. Compared to that start of my life, the present doesn’t seem so horrendous. But I do sympathize with your concern.
First, it's hard to believe you will be 85, moving faster than the speed of light. Second, I can only imagine those days of wartime, hearing the stories from my parents, wondering what would happen to families on the other side of the conflict, as well as their own. Thanks for this simple reminder. I worry less about the present these days, than do I do about the future (but also thankful, for now, we have a future to concern ourselves with).
Thanks so much for writing this. I'm trying so hard to process my feelings but I keep shifting between extreme anger and despair. I feel so much anger for those that are enjoying the hard won benefits that brave activists secured for them and yet have turned around and are allowing them to be stripped away. Your eloquent voice is so important.
Thank you always for reading! I can only imagine your anger, growing up in a slightly different generation. The number of women who broke through before me in computer science. The women that are still trying to break through. At this point, while I can give my time away to any number of orgs, I'm trying to find a way to make this work of writing work for the better. Miss you!