Miscellany Plus

When Fio was younger, she dreamed of living in a big mansion. Now she dreams of living in a small cottage that's easy to keep up.
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Going through some of her life drawing (translation: naked people) artwork, Fio came across a drawing  that bothered her at the time and still makes her feel icky. It was of  young man who set up his own pose, propping his head and shoulders on one box and his legs on another, with no support for the center of his body.  The pose was a torturous, but he insisted on it. The experience was Fio's first--and only--contact with blatant maschism.
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At some tme in one's life, one has to take a stand, but these kids in Parkland have had to do it way too young.
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Friend Suzy and Fio had a hard time getting through on the transatlantic cable the other day, and they ended up calling other twice each before they could finally get a connection that wasn't being gnawed on by an octopus. What did they talk about? The same things they would have talked about when Suzy lived in "The States--" their jobs, their families, the weather, politics, Trump, the Russians, and of course, the Parkland massacre. Yes, people all over the globe know what happened and what the government should do to prevent anything like that from ever happening again. But will it?
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Pray for your faithful correspondent. Friend Evelyn is scheduled to be the speaker at a writers' league meeting this evening so Fio, who doesn't drive at night anymore, is going to gut up and drive over to the library to be cheer her on.