Tuesday 05/28/2024
Took a short-ish walk in the morning. My hip is almost back to normal. 90% or so. Then the writers meeting. The prompt was “in another voice” — tell a story in first person, but as someone else’s first person “I”, not yourself. I had nothing, but some others wrote very powerful things. Nancy F. wrote as her 5th-great grandmother, a Cherokee woman named Nan-ye-hi who lived around 1800. She did a lovely job. Here’s a snippet,
My grandmother gave me the name Nanye’hi.
My mother always said Nanye’hi at home.
Around white people she called me Nancy.
To them it sounded almost the same.
My name means “one who goes about.”
It was the right name for me.
I have gone to many places in my sixty-six years.
Then off to FOPAL where there was a whole lotta stuff for the computer section. In particular there were two solid boxes of books about the Raspberry Pi and Arduino hobby computers. It was like somebody had really dived into that hobby and collected every book on the market, and all in prime condition. So I set up a special two-shelf section just for those books. In all I spent 3 hours there.
Practiced some music, and at 7pm there was a sing-along in the lobby and I went down and sang along for a while. The sing-alongs always end up annoying me, because it seems like they never pick the right key for me. So there’s always low notes I can’t sing, or high notes I can’t sing, some songs with both. I know I can sing — when I get to pick the song and transpose it to the right key. Which is why I never joined the chorus. I remember back in 2019, chorus director Mary tried to get me to join. I went to one rehearsal, and that’s what happened, first song, couldn’t sing the low notes. Or the high ones, whichever, for the part I was supposed to do. Said, sorry. Ironically I am going to sing a duet with that same Mary soon. We rehearse again this Friday.
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