allways take the one less travelled

you will see the difference

Stardate: July 19, 2011

I sit here are the great marble slab that seems to engulf my entire dining room.  My ears have just been removed after yet another family discussion long distance call with my mother.  These discussions generally do not happen often, but when they do - I know people can feel the earth shake three counties away from my mother's opinion of the world as we know it.

One of my favorite discussions recently regarded my cousin.  Bless his heart, I swear that boy is either crooked as a baptist preacher or has less intelligence than a box of rocks.   My mother, the once peace loving aging hippie has discovered some new life skills in her old ago - mainly nagging, complaining and gossiping - probably in that order.  She refers to it and becoming a southern woman - i just think she got too fat to wear her rather scary bellbottoms. and now she is stuck in 1950's gingham and donna reed mode.

And I sit here wondering - where did I go wrong or was it right.  If i had two children who were in there 30's and still had not given her grandchildren - would I be this enbittered too? Then I think no - my mother scares people for a living and has defied death more times than escape artist.  I think she is negative because she actually enjoys tormenting me.

I know my apple fell from the family tree but I think it kept rolling and rolling and rolling.  And now instead of being the picture of a perfect southern woman I have a tattoo and a motorcycle. 

So what is the point of this aimless rant - I am not sure myself.  But here I stand where two roads have diverged in the woods.  Do I take the one less traveled and will it make all the difference.