Thursday, July 5, 2001
Cause for Celebration - To LTF
Although there was no family get together this year (thank god, I needed a break from visits), July 4th was pretty quiet, I got a lot of reading done, the fireworks were a success and helped me out, in a way. While we were at the fireworks display I ran into some people I know and see on a regular basis here in Prescott. Although few of them have met my mother they all know about her and greeted her as though she was an old friend. My mother was overwhelmed. On our way home she said, "I didn't realize how many people you know up here," and later, "I may have to start going along with you when you go to your meetings and such." I don't actually expect her to become Mrs. Senior Prescott. I'll be surprised, in fact, if she goes anyplace I usually go on my own. But I got the feeling that she is beginning to understand how it is that I can consider Prescott one of our homes. Maybe she will, too. Although she rarely sees any of the people she knows in Mesa they are a community of which she considers herself a part. I'm hoping that last night was the beginning of her accepting the community I have built up here as her own.
