Hey memes, that was a pretty good ride to the movies from Maverick Rd. In the daytime you might have passed me lugging golf bags on the course. Caddying wasn't a bad way to make a few bucks. I can still walk the course in my mind. It was beautiful, really.
Re: the city
I was born in the village in a hospital (French Hospital) that got merged into St. Vincents, I guess. My mother's parents lived in Woodstock, and I ended up there in fifth grade at the Shady one room schoolhouse. Very lucky for me, as I have both the city and the mountains in my early blood. My book, Every Story is a Love Story, is set in Woodstock around 64, 65, so it doesn't involve the fifties. I've been afraid to write about that time; it would mean living there emotionally for a couple of years. I hadn't yet learned how to please everyone and be Mr. BigFrog, a role which put me in big debt to whoever I wasn't yet and which came due to be paid in full one winter morning at Hamilton College when I woke up having missed advanced calculus (again) and heard a loud undeniable voice in my head: Get Out!
Forty-eight hours later I was hitch-hiking to Key West to look for a job on a shrimp boat. Left the Dean's list, the scholarship, the Psi Upsilon secretariat, the captain of the Onteora high school cheerleaders (then at Cornell), and started over.
I have started over since then, but never so absolutely. "Anything born is born naked..." I wrote some years ago at the end of a long relationship.
Sorry about the long ramble. Were you in the city during the great snow of '48? School in England must have been interesting.
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I like that what an awesome beginning, you have to wonder what the Catalyst was especially considering the 60s emoji hippies with headbands and flowers in their hair dancing in the park, and it seems like some movie that you weren't the only one to head down to Florida the work on a shrimp boat and yes it was probably a long climb out of that one smiles ☺️
Reading and writing some of this stuff is kind of inspiring me to go through some old unpublished writing from the typewriter era and maybe regurgitate it onto this platform emoji man bending over with flying typewriters coming out of his mouth, and I like a good long ramble by the way and while I was there in the city or the Bronx to be exact in 48 during the Great Blizzard I certainly wasn't old enough to remember much about it though I do remember walking in the gale force wind and singing the Volga Boat song🚣♂️🚣♀️🚣🎯🎲
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