hello fellow timberhill alumni,
it seems the next logical step in this evolution of technology to create a blog so that we can write whatever we want, about anything we want and share it with each other. We had a unique experience and special friendships. let's keep in touch but at your convenience. read it when you feel like it and write when you can no longer stay silent. so come on, get those fingers dancing and write your brains out!
I don't really have anything to say right now and I would rather let my feet do the dancing. Mainly I am looking forward to meeting up with everyone that can make it to the reunion. Timberhill was definitely a unique experience, one that I would not have wanted to miss.
ReplyDeletethanks betsy, that was a real fine start for my blog. of course you have something to say, you love dancing! all i can do when forced onto the dance floor is feel how bad i am at doing it. i feel like the collective cracker.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited about the reunion but I'm also aware of some sad feelings. Really will be glad to see you guys though.
ReplyDeletewhat sad feelings? could you explain? i have regrets of not seeing a lot of you after school ended. i don't know why i did that. i remember going to live in europe just after, and when I came back, it's as if my time with all of you never happened. can't explain why i'm like that, but i don't like it....
ReplyDeleteThanks for starting this Rick. I think it is a wonderful idea. It was fun seeing you the one time in LA.
ReplyDeleteMarjorie
I know that I will be sad being there without Jenny. And of course without all the others we have lost. But I am also looking forward to reconnecting with those who knew Jenny and can share memories of her. As to why we didn't all keep in touch .... mmm .. We were teens, perhaps we needed to go out there and grow in new ways. I value the foundation that my teen years (especially at Timberhill) gave me and I was able to draw on the strengths that my experience at Timberhill provided but I was also glad to leave behind the self doubt and bad decisions that my teen years were riddled with. Oh I am so much stronger now (ha!.. well I am) Anyway now I can look back at that time and relish the incredible experience and I am so anxious to see you all again. I can't wait to laugh and cry with you all and yes hopefully dance til the cows come home.
ReplyDeleteJenny was a special person. She always looked at me disapprovingly, like 'why are you such a brat'?
ReplyDeleteI remember she had big beautiful eyes
yes she did have big beautiful eyes, and all 3 of her kids inherited those eyes.she may have given you that look, she was a no nonsense person, just do it, shit or get off the pot. but she did all that in a positive way, how she did it all with such grace left me in awe. she just kept moving forward. all that forward motion is what's propelling me forth. and all the nice things i'm saying about her she would say is a bunch of whooee (sp?)
ReplyDeleteI remember Jenny, and you too betsy, as being a lot more mature than me. I was a young girl who wanted to be free and experience many things. I loved the nature that I found at timberhill. Everything was new to me...the trees the weather, the ocean, the animals and of corse the people...so it was like I was a baby experiencing it all for the first time. The magical redwood forest and orchids in spring, braving the freezing cold pond or the ocean, kick the can, the bareback horserides in the moonlight, lying on the field star gazing, eating sunflower seeds on the porch, and drinking teqilla for the first time with friends...katy????in Howards room (can't remember who was there that time). But never can forget Rick and others singing happy bday in the nude to Joan! WOW! think that must have been a turning point in timberhill history(Must have been the 2nd year after we were more at ease with each other). Yes, I have my own special memories. Be fun to hear yours too.
ReplyDeletefunny how things look from a different perspective. Janice, you thought Jenny and I were so mature, I remember feeling so green, so unformed. Actually that first year at Timberhill I was fresh from a year living in France and traveling around Europe. Regardless I felt that everyone at Timberhill had lived so much more than I had. I saw you Janice, as that exotic island girl who seemed so comfortable in her skin. and speaking of skin.... all that nakedness, Katy and i used to take showers on the back porch cuz it was so gloriously sunny and warm and there was hot water. David Bickart playing naked volleyball when the Jehovah's witnesses showed up. Epic water fights, cheesecake parties in the goat barn. southern comfort, Kahlua and Cream, ah the drunkeness of it all, (and now i don't drink at all!) Copious amounts of laughter, love and tears. No on guiding us but ourselves.
ReplyDeleteHey you guys I am exited to see everybody too. I thought that I was at Timberhill for two years but I figured out I was there for the first year only. I was wondering why I didn't remember some of the people coming to the reunion.
ReplyDeleteBetsy I have tried to call Fritz twice and have left him a message twice. His voicemail is strange. In it he asked you to state your cause.
Ever since Jan and Katie found me I have been talking to Rick on a regular basis. It's like the 35 years was nothing between us. Pretty cool.