I'm also preparing a major handout for my Parent Group rep meeting for next Saturday including lots of ideas for large group programs. That's a lot, too.
I'd like to have something about birthplace ready for my writing group for next weekend. I think this is a really rich topic. I wrote a piece some times ago but I want to work on this some more.
I'm including a picture of St. Lukes Hospital in Pasadena CA. I (along with my brother) was born in this hospital. It closed some time ago and now is often used as a set for movies and tv shows. What does that mean?
And looking around the net, I've picked a rendering of somebody else's birthplace. John Bunyan who wrote Pilgrim's Progress.
When you look at biographical information, the protocol is to include the birth year and birthplace. Why? Does this tell you something about the person?
When I was in college, there was a paper directory for all of the students in Crown College and their 'home address' which was the address of their parents. I cannot imagine that now but, hey, it was 40 years ago. Everybody at UCSC was from California, some international students, probably but California seemed the end of the earth. There's a divide between Northern California and Southern California. Then and now. I considered myself to be from Northern California (though Sacramento was certainly unfashionable.) However my parents moved from Sacramento to Orange County in my freshman year. It was probably in the works but I wasn't paying attention so absorbed was I in my own emancipation. So that darn Santa Ana address was in the directory. How annoying was that? It looked like I was a Southern California person, when I WASN'T.
But my birthplace is Pasadena. So Cal, as they say.
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