Saturday, March 03, 2001
My boyfriend and I do not live together. I feel that it would be best for us to wait till after we are married before we live together. Also I don't believe in pre-marital sex as a choice for me. He has'nt really complained about my stance on the living together and the sex issue. Well, he has'nt complained so loudly that he has left me because he disagrees with my personal beliefs.
Personally, I do not feel that it is wrong for unmarried people to live together or sleep together,it's a free country after all. It's just that I would prefer to wait. I hope no one thinks I'm a little strange because of my beliefs. In actuality they are not religiously based but personally based. Basically, I just made a personal choice to wait.
As far as religion is concerned I'm not a Christian. I'm just your basic variety of tree hugging hippie Wiccan. My choice of religion has nothing to do with being dissatisfied with Christianity. I never was a Christian to begin with. When I was growing up my family never went to church. We were basically free thinkers. Both of my parents were artists. When I was 10 or 11 my father gave me a bible and basically said you can choose to believe what's in this book or not. Whatever your choice is that's your choice. I'll support you just the same.
The way I see it people have different beliefs and should be allowed to believe what ever they want. That is of course as long as it does not infringe on my personal safety or the safety of others.
I'm probably the only person I know who actuality stops says hello and takes tracts from Jehova's Witnesses. Sure, I don't hold the same religious beliefs they do, but they are human just the same. They've got feelings just like anyone else does. Just because I don't share the same beliefs as another does not give me or anyone else the right to invalidate their belief system by being mean to them. Afterall, everyone has a right to there own personal choices.
Personally, I do not feel that it is wrong for unmarried people to live together or sleep together,it's a free country after all. It's just that I would prefer to wait. I hope no one thinks I'm a little strange because of my beliefs. In actuality they are not religiously based but personally based. Basically, I just made a personal choice to wait.
As far as religion is concerned I'm not a Christian. I'm just your basic variety of tree hugging hippie Wiccan. My choice of religion has nothing to do with being dissatisfied with Christianity. I never was a Christian to begin with. When I was growing up my family never went to church. We were basically free thinkers. Both of my parents were artists. When I was 10 or 11 my father gave me a bible and basically said you can choose to believe what's in this book or not. Whatever your choice is that's your choice. I'll support you just the same.
The way I see it people have different beliefs and should be allowed to believe what ever they want. That is of course as long as it does not infringe on my personal safety or the safety of others.
I'm probably the only person I know who actuality stops says hello and takes tracts from Jehova's Witnesses. Sure, I don't hold the same religious beliefs they do, but they are human just the same. They've got feelings just like anyone else does. Just because I don't share the same beliefs as another does not give me or anyone else the right to invalidate their belief system by being mean to them. Afterall, everyone has a right to there own personal choices.
Today I just started wondering if it's too soon or to late to start booking a hall for my wedding a well as finding a dress. David and I plan to marry two years from now in the fall. I wish I knew someone to ask. All of my friends are single and my sibilings are single too. The only people I can think to ask would be my aunts and uncles but it's been quiet a while since they tied the know. The majority of them married in the 50's and 60's. Come to think of it all of my cousins are single to. I guess I get to be the first person in my generation to marry as opposed to shack up with some guy.
Thursday, March 01, 2001
Believe it or not I just got back from seeing a play at Center Stage. I go there a lot because well, I have to. I have a subsctiption there. I also used to work there. The play I saw tonight was Peter Weiss' The Investigation. The play took place in a courtoom in Frankfort, West Germany 1963-1965. It was about the trial of 14 former S.S. Officers and a former prisoner instrumental in camp operation at Auschwitz. So based on this short description you can probably tell that the play was extremely serious in tone. This play was quiet a departure from the usual fare that Artistic Director Irene Lewis usually directs. Irene mainly likes to direct light comedies and she's really good at it.
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
I meant to write something on Tuesday but I had a Dentist's appointment. I like going to Dr. Bell's office for all my dental needs primarily because things are discounted because he is my relative. At long last I asked his wife what her son Lawrence is doing. You see Lawrence ran for Mayor of the city I live in and lost. Ever since he lost no one seems to know what he has been up to. It was like he vanished out of thin air. Cousin Eleanor told me that he is living in Atlanta doing a talk radio show. It's nice to know that he is doing fine. For the life of me I can't understand why during the end of his campaign he brought former DC Mayor Marion Barry along with him to campaign. Barry, definetly is not the sort of person that I would ever imagine any of the Bell's associating with. They are a very upper middle class black family. His father is a Dentist and his mother is a Lawyer. They were loaded enough to afford a housekeeper for Christsakes! I guess it was desperation on Lawrence's part.....
Anyhow, I'm happy to hear that Lawrence is doing fine. If anyone deserves something good to happen it's Lawrence.
Anyhow, I'm happy to hear that Lawrence is doing fine. If anyone deserves something good to happen it's Lawrence.
Monday, February 26, 2001
My feelings for my dad are kind of like a double edged sword on one hand I'm glad that he never dates on the other hand I wish that he would find someone. I hate to see him so lonely. He told me one day that when he married my mother he decided that day that he would never marry again because he had found the perfect woman for him. And people wonder why me and my siblings are still single.......
My dad was born in January of 1929. He was born into a family of 9 children. Today they are only 2 living him and Uncle Leon. Dad was a laborer at Bethlehem Steel Company in Sparrows Point Maryland. He was also a gifted artist. He was the one who taught me to draw.
I remember evenings he would come home from work he'd read the newspaper, sit down on the porch and eat his corned beef sandwich and beer. He would always bring me a bag of cheese curls when he came home from work. My dad was always into the news. If anythings going on he knows about it backwards and forwards. He can argue pro or con on any news issue. Not surprisingly his favorite tv station is CNN. He listens to NPR religiously in the morning. In fact whenever I listen to NPR it's almost like I'm connected to him. It's almost like an invisible psychic link with dad.
My dad was born in January of 1929. He was born into a family of 9 children. Today they are only 2 living him and Uncle Leon. Dad was a laborer at Bethlehem Steel Company in Sparrows Point Maryland. He was also a gifted artist. He was the one who taught me to draw.
I remember evenings he would come home from work he'd read the newspaper, sit down on the porch and eat his corned beef sandwich and beer. He would always bring me a bag of cheese curls when he came home from work. My dad was always into the news. If anythings going on he knows about it backwards and forwards. He can argue pro or con on any news issue. Not surprisingly his favorite tv station is CNN. He listens to NPR religiously in the morning. In fact whenever I listen to NPR it's almost like I'm connected to him. It's almost like an invisible psychic link with dad.
Sunday, February 25, 2001
You know I just realized I never really explained my family that much. I am the youngest of three children I was born in 1970. My brother was born in 1959 and my sister was born in 1958. So as anyone can probably figure out I was the mistake. My family was kind of unusual in that my parents were married and never divorced. My mom was a stay at home mother. I remember skipping school and watching the Phil Donahue Show with her. I don't think she minded she just enjoyed the company. Mom passed away in 1997 after a long bout with diabetes. I remember when she got sick my dad would drive her back and forth to the clinic and the hospitals. I'd always wondered it I'll ever find someone who cared so deeply for me the way my parents did for each other.....
I had a very quiet yet interesting weekend. Dave went to Virginia to spend the weekend with an old pal who recently moved down there. I had the opportunity to look over my geneology notes on Saturday. What I discovered was that I have several Elizabeth's in my family. I think that it's possible for Lucy to be a nickname for Elizabeth. I have to get back to Uncle Leon later today on specifics of whether or not the man knows if his Grandmother's birth name is Elizabeth.
