note: I'm a little late making these; please see also my response to catchild's previous.
And no, with Kathy money and appearances are NOT everything. She cares about education -- moved to bass-ackwards Alabama far from any family to get it for her kids, and by goddess, it worked. She cares about the environment, for its own sake. She cares about her children's happiness and well-being, though her worldview insists that we'll be truly happier as strict modern Baptists.
Neither "appearances" nor "money" have to do with the letters and phone calls we share sometimes. She didn't lead Girl Scouts for umpteen years to get into the society pages. Her stamp club and canoeing aren't part of some dark plot to preserve the family's status and influence. She's a real person. I think the worst problem between her and the rest of the world is that she tries to share her values too hard and too blindly, which may be idiotically short-sighted but isn't evil.
*shudder* It feels weird defending my grandfather and my mother to the rest of my family.
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axis of evil, anyone? =(
Date: 2004-07-29 10:04 pm (UTC)And no, with Kathy money and appearances are NOT everything. She cares about education -- moved to bass-ackwards Alabama far from any family to get it for her kids, and by goddess, it worked. She cares about the environment, for its own sake. She cares about her children's happiness and well-being, though her worldview insists that we'll be truly happier as strict modern Baptists.
Neither "appearances" nor "money" have to do with the letters and phone calls we share sometimes. She didn't lead Girl Scouts for umpteen years to get into the society pages. Her stamp club and canoeing aren't part of some dark plot to preserve the family's status and influence. She's a real person. I think the worst problem between her and the rest of the world is that she tries to share her values too hard and too blindly, which may be idiotically short-sighted but isn't evil.
*shudder* It feels weird defending my grandfather and my mother to the rest of my family.