Before I went home I stopped by to visit with my neighbors. Dick and Jane are the central pillars in a large immigrant family that is so tight that it leaves SuperK and me speechless. I'm not insisting it's better, just so different from our family dynamics that we barely have a frame of reference. Jane is one of those relentlessly positive people that never seems to slip into self-pity or adopt an attitude of passive-aggressive pique. Yet she's pretty tough - she doesn't take crap from anybody but her stance is so positive at it's core that I find myself sharing a lot of crap about my family, something I rarely do outside the confines of The Program or of close friendships of long-standing.
I wanted to thank them for continually knocking me back onto the tracks of somewhat acceptable behavior. Were I ever to err I would like it to be on the side of kindness, tolerance, and understanding. I don't want to be aggrieved, as if I were a politician running for President, bemoaning the horrible state of affairs that have left me a multimillionaire. I want to hitch up my britches and be positive.
Not easy for me.
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