Comments on: Like a swig of sweet tea http://www.stinasieg.com/2009/11/like-a-swig-of-sweet-tea/ A Journey Around America and Canada Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sherry Myers http://www.stinasieg.com/2009/11/like-a-swig-of-sweet-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Sherry Myers Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:42:52 +0000 http://www.stinasieg.com/?p=553#comment-88 Hi Stina, Just checked out your site to see how you are doing, and fell upon the comments you wrote about your visit to Luray (and us!). Really enjoyed the piece. Also, Tom and I thoroughly enjoyed having you here. There is absolutely no doubt that you will be successful.... hey, you already are! Hope you have a wonderful TG with Granny and we'll be thinking of you! Safety Fast (as Tom would say!) Sherry Hi Stina,
Just checked out your site to see how you are doing, and fell upon the comments you wrote about your visit to Luray (and us!). Really enjoyed the piece. Also, Tom and I thoroughly enjoyed having you here. There is absolutely no doubt that you will be successful…. hey, you already are!

Hope you have a wonderful TG with Granny and we’ll be thinking of you!
Safety Fast (as Tom would say!)
Sherry

]]> By: Starr Belsky http://www.stinasieg.com/2009/11/like-a-swig-of-sweet-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Starr Belsky Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:38 +0000 http://www.stinasieg.com/?p=553#comment-82 I'm so glad that Mitch "fixed you up" with Tom and Sherry! They are both remarkably compassionate, lively, and interesting people--and very resilient. My cousin Sherry, whom I obviously know better, has seen an awful lot of hard times with her family--and with her work, where she fought very hard to establish and maintain an outpatient psychiatric day care program for seniors and often bumped heads with unsympathetic "superiors" and battled all kinds of bureaucracy. I have long marveled at her physical and emotional stamina. Tom is relatively recent in her life and is the soulmate so she richly deserves. They both are courageous, openly campaigning hard for Obama in some very "red" country. And Tom is the liberal black sheep of his family; maybe his love for nature and Native American artifacts has made him more aware of the big picture. As for Baltimore City (and I am rather familiar with Hampden, having lived on the edge of it for many years), you have definitely captured a taste of it. Growing up in a carless family, I walked and rode buses all over town, and the nooks and crannies of the city have been and still are the predominant backdrop and often the very theme of my dreams. It is the similar kind of nonuniformity (even among the blocks of row houses), the intimacy, and even the shopworn-ness of that old urban world that spoke to me in Silver City, and why it feels like home here. I rarely miss B'more, but it is forever in my bones. If you are ever there again, take some time to walk downtown, starting at Mount Royal Ave., and zig-zag north and south along Calvert, St. Paul, Charles, and Park Ave, and around the edges of the park at Mt. Vernon; the grand old rows in the area will occasionally treat you to a feast of architectural green men and lions. (Just mind your back; it is "the city," y'know.) Missing you and your socks, Starr I’m so glad that Mitch “fixed you up” with Tom and Sherry! They are both remarkably compassionate, lively, and interesting people–and very resilient. My cousin Sherry, whom I obviously know better, has seen an awful lot of hard times with her family–and with her work, where she fought very hard to establish and maintain an outpatient psychiatric day care program for seniors and often bumped heads with unsympathetic “superiors” and battled all kinds of bureaucracy. I have long marveled at her physical and emotional stamina. Tom is relatively recent in her life and is the soulmate so she richly deserves. They both are courageous, openly campaigning hard for Obama in some very “red” country. And Tom is the liberal black sheep of his family; maybe his love for nature and Native American artifacts has made him more aware of the big picture.

As for Baltimore City (and I am rather familiar with Hampden, having lived on the edge of it for many years), you have definitely captured a taste of it. Growing up in a carless family, I walked and rode buses all over town, and the nooks and crannies of the city have been and still are the predominant backdrop and often the very theme of my dreams. It is the similar kind of nonuniformity (even among the blocks of row houses), the intimacy, and even the shopworn-ness of that old urban world that spoke to me in Silver City, and why it feels like home here. I rarely miss B’more, but it is forever in my bones. If you are ever there again, take some time to walk downtown, starting at Mount Royal Ave., and zig-zag north and south along Calvert, St. Paul, Charles, and Park Ave, and around the edges of the park at Mt. Vernon; the grand old rows in the area will occasionally treat you to a feast of architectural green men and lions. (Just mind your back; it is “the city,” y’know.)

Missing you and your socks,

Starr

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