Emails between me and my sister:

from me responding to my sis:

Thanks! I have just had the most awesome month! Started my own consulting biz up again and had a big event here last wknd and am on radio show tomorrow and working on upcoming tv show appearance. Had a great turnout at my event. It was great fun too! I've got several folks who I'm working with on various projects and am having a blast!

Went to an improv/dance class this am since it's nat'l dance week and all the studios are free. Several of my friends from Nashville and the Bay area take classes using this playful method: www.interplay.org/index.asp

Then I bought lots of fresh organic fruit, Indian food and fresh flowers at the Farmer's Market just outside my gate (happens each Friday - I love it - feels like Europe). www.urbanvillageonline.com/ Dad would have loved the Kettle Corn purveyor - he really puts on a show!

Tonight going to see the "shamanic cheerleaders" in SF. Kind of Burning Man art/cheering! ha! www.shamaniccheerleaders.com/

Then I'm working the Maker's Faire on Sunday. (B might really enjoy seeing the link - it's all about the merging of green technology and craftiness and pure fun! Lots of science geeks go since it was dreamed up in Silicon Valley!)
makerfaire.com/

I was just remembering your kindness to me after I was mugged. Thanks for loving up on me and my kids so much.

Did you get the scarf I got you (left it at Mom's)? Happy Bday early! Finally be on time this year!

Talked to mom last week and she said she'd pulled a muscle and was in pain. Sorry to hear that.

Yes, I'm thrilled to have my youngest in CA too!!!! Was laying out on Baker beach (near where I took you and you climbed a tree) beside GG bridge when she called to tell me the news and I did a little dance in the sand and sun and waves!!

Talked to [my son] this week - he writes a 20 page philosophy paper every other week and he's down to the wire on a deadline for today. I told him I'm reading a fun philosophy/mystery by Alexander McCall Smith - you might enjoy it: The Sunday Philosophy Club - set in Scotland!

www.mccallsmith.com/sunday1.htm

So glad to hear KJ and B's news! So proud of KJ's work! My it's amazing to think she's all grown up! And good for B for having fun in the mountains! Life is so short!

Congrats on speaking! Those Mennonites do awesome work on Fair Trade issues and run the 10,000 Villages shop in Nash where I got your Xmas presents a couple of years ago.
www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php

Hugs and love to all,
K


from my sis:

Dear K:

I'm smiling as I think of the great joy of visiting
you and your wonderful San Francisco last yr at this
time. Uni Lectures were just finishing and I
was hunting for a ride to San Fran. You were so
graciuos to let me sleep in your bed. Michael thinks
you must be a saint to be able to sleep with me; it's
taken him a long time to get used ot my contortions
and noises and wrestling around. Hope your spring is
far more kind to yoru body than the previous one was.
And hope you've met only non-aggressive
fellow-travellers at your busstops in Oakland. Do you
take the bus into teh City?

I know you've gotta be thrilled that both your girls
will be in your homestate. Man, oh,
man, that's something few of us siblings has
experienced w/ our college-aged children (only you and
N?)

May you enjoy spring. I am. I get to speak at a
Mother/ Daughter Banquet this Tues pm at a Brethren
Church, then chapel at a private Mennonite high school
the next day. Am getting the house ready for market;
we're considering movign into a smaller home (?) in
Vburg closer to the U.

KJ's birhtday's tomorrow and she called me w/ the
great news that she's up to 7 clients this wk (new
position in private practice MFTherapy) and is
thrilled to be back into treating whole families.
B is loving his summer weather, has booked several
LONG mtbiking trips w/ girl and guy-buddies, and is
starting to talk to old profs re: his grad school
plans for fall 2009. Wants to teach on college level
in the sciences. Hope your children are thriving. And
you.

LOVE YOU, J