Managing my life and Anna's death
I spent the weekend trying to find colleagues to cover my classes next week. I want to free up next weekend and the entire week of Thanksgiving to sort through all of this stuff and get over to Octotillo. I found a detailed letter from Aunt Anna in the safe deposit box that I'm still trying to digest. She swears that I will need to dedicate myself the contents of the box for at least the next 3 weeks.
But I have a life too! I have courses to teach and office hours to hold. I'm already behind on grading. I'm not sure how I'll juggle this.
In Aunt Anna's letter, she tells me that there is a "mysterious family secret that brings great wealth and happiness to all who possess it." Both tangible and intangible, this secret - this treasure? - is in St. Augustine. Like anything worth having, though, anticipation and the process of discovering the treasure is paramount. And so I must persevere through 39 trials - trials of wit, adventure, and loyalty. The family can help, but the family is divided. Can the internal bickering be channeled into something more productive, more resourceful? And we possible foster health competition?
In any event, Anna says it is impossible for me to pursue this "treasure" alone. I NEED the help of my family members, but it will be unclear to me which branch of the extended family has true intentions. Indeed, they themselves might not even be aware of their intentions. The
Lawn Games for Life is both the name of the website of the recently departed Anna Ravelo and the game about her family’s search for a mysterious family secret that brings great wealth and happiness to all who possess it. I should ultimately trust the SMARTEST, TOUGHEST, and most LOYAL ones. Garcias? Ravelos? Souzas? Freemont/Williams?
Aunt Anna was a tough, smart cookie who knew how to work with other people. I suppose that she wants to share our family's mysterious secrets only with those who are SMART enough, TOUGH enough, and LOYAL enough.
The one thing that Aunt Anna specified in the letter is that we have to plan on being in St. Augustine, FL on December 22, 2006. If we can't work together to complete these trials and find out exactly WHERE to go and WHEN and WHAT to bring, then we will lose the mysterious and lucrative family secret forever. We will end up wandering around the streets of St. Augustine like Ponce de Leon looking for the ephemeral and (non-existent?) Fountain of Youth.
She promises more details about what to expect during the "quest" when I get to her computer in Octotillo.
Okay Aunt Anna - I'll give it a shot, but is it really worth it? Because I'm about to put my life on hold. I'm not sure if I can afford to do that.
But I have a life too! I have courses to teach and office hours to hold. I'm already behind on grading. I'm not sure how I'll juggle this.
In Aunt Anna's letter, she tells me that there is a "mysterious family secret that brings great wealth and happiness to all who possess it." Both tangible and intangible, this secret - this treasure? - is in St. Augustine. Like anything worth having, though, anticipation and the process of discovering the treasure is paramount. And so I must persevere through 39 trials - trials of wit, adventure, and loyalty. The family can help, but the family is divided. Can the internal bickering be channeled into something more productive, more resourceful? And we possible foster health competition?
In any event, Anna says it is impossible for me to pursue this "treasure" alone. I NEED the help of my family members, but it will be unclear to me which branch of the extended family has true intentions. Indeed, they themselves might not even be aware of their intentions. The
Lawn Games for Life is both the name of the website of the recently departed Anna Ravelo and the game about her family’s search for a mysterious family secret that brings great wealth and happiness to all who possess it. I should ultimately trust the SMARTEST, TOUGHEST, and most LOYAL ones. Garcias? Ravelos? Souzas? Freemont/Williams?
Aunt Anna was a tough, smart cookie who knew how to work with other people. I suppose that she wants to share our family's mysterious secrets only with those who are SMART enough, TOUGH enough, and LOYAL enough.
The one thing that Aunt Anna specified in the letter is that we have to plan on being in St. Augustine, FL on December 22, 2006. If we can't work together to complete these trials and find out exactly WHERE to go and WHEN and WHAT to bring, then we will lose the mysterious and lucrative family secret forever. We will end up wandering around the streets of St. Augustine like Ponce de Leon looking for the ephemeral and (non-existent?) Fountain of Youth.
She promises more details about what to expect during the "quest" when I get to her computer in Octotillo.
Okay Aunt Anna - I'll give it a shot, but is it really worth it? Because I'm about to put my life on hold. I'm not sure if I can afford to do that.
posted by Taylor at 11:04 AM
3 Comments:
Yeah, but don't worry about it too much... aunt anna always said everything would take 3 weeks
she probably just left you a box of crossword puzzles...
ryan
:P
Hahaha! I hope so! THat would actually be kind of fun.
Only you would think that 3 straight weeks of crossword puzzles picked out by an ecentric 84 year old woman would be fun.
Hopefully you won't be too disappointed if the box of crossword puzzles turns out to be some kind of actually valuable treasure ;)
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