Ooh, you started a cool new project? Sorry I missed the evolution of this. The migration over from the other platform was messy.
Are you handling the workload for it okay?

There are just so many things I want to ask her about, but it’s now been just over a decade since she passed away.
Nights like this I really miss her letters and I miss writing back to her.
Social media and email has never felt the same as a penpal with real physical mail and a lifelong dialogue ✉️

For sure, she would still be reminding me how dumb she thought it was that she always had to wear a dress to work because women were barred from wearing pants to work by law. Not sure when that changed in 🇨🇦 , but the way I remember things it was during my lifetime because I remember it in letters.

If my great-aunt was still alive, for sure she would be reminding me regularly how lucky I am because her father and then her brother had to sign for everything in her life because she couldn’t rent an apartment, get a bank account, etc as a solo woman.

I wish she was still alive, so she could hear about her 13yo great-great nephew who absolutely loves team sports. Today after school, he had the high school basketball team practice, then league soccer practice, then provincial volleyball uniform measurements.
Tomorrow night is band concert.

In her mind, walking or weights was okay, but something like golf, tennis, baseball, group dance classes, etc were superior. And fundraising sport events were the pinnacle of these social sporting events she expected to hear about in my letters.

I even think I get my love of sports and working out from my great-aunt because she always prioritized asking me what I was doing to keep active. If I didn’t have a good answer, she would scold me in the next letter. And then ask me again.
She would especially praise me if it was a social sport.

They were also two of the very few relatives who supported me living with my now-husband before marriage, and celebrated that I was an old bride (old for rural Ontario) at age 32. I think I understand now just how much they lived through my mom, me, and my sister for the opportunities we had.

Now at this stage in life I understand both women so much better.
They were both *incredibly* intelligent, capable women. They even both graduated high school at a time most women didn’t. But had few opportunities in life due to their gender. So they fiercely guarded what little privilege they had.

It seems a decision was made at some point to keep it a secret because the 3 of us didn’t want my g’ma (her SIL, my mom’s mom) to get jealous, but I had forgotten that until my mom reminded me.
G’ma did have a jealous side of her, especially when it came to sharing with her SIL.

Bronwyn Lewis?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hI...

Since posting, I haven’t gone back to the movie. I just can’t get into it.
Soooo creepy.
If someone has never been stalked, maybe they’d be okay with it. But, I have been, so I can’t relax and just watch the Radio scenes.
(Shudder)