Biographical email bits I sent friends and they didn't appreciate

Biographical email bits I sent friends and they didn't appreciate...
So I will keep and enjoy for myself. 

I think this first one freaked my cousin out -- I think it's a great autobiographical bit...

9-4-2021

Thanks Diane, 

I was stressed until I got your email. 

My mom really is a genius and I've been enjoying that now over the last twenty years. 

I saw her tapping her fingers in an unusual way and asked her if she was thinking of a song and she said said no that she was thinking of a poetic passage of Pablo Neruda in her head and clicking on the rhythm of the poem. 

Tonight watching Classical Arts Showcase, I asked her who the conductor was and she said that was Strokowski and that he was 95 years old when he died. It's amazing. 

She was/is a perfectionist but I learned later in life that it was also the whole issue of being the first born of an immigrant who doesn't understand this country and they expect that you will automatically know things of her culture. She was also very confused by typical American things and teenagers did like sleepovers and I had to be the one to introduce a lot of cultural things to her which she didn't understand and didn't like. Now I see shows on tv like that great one on Netflix, Master of None which shows what I didn't understand about the home internal cultural clashes. 

I wish I had a good memory / or maybe like you say, try to ask my mother sometime. She doesn't really like to talk about her struggles here...I've tried many times as I'm sure she has had some...I heard some mouth dropping racist stories the family members said to her out of not knowing better, but she is very proud and feels like she has always believed in God and her life has always worked out fine. 

Thank you for the positive words... you've always been an inspiration to me and thus going to Santa Clara. 

Ida

Too controversial - no reply. 

Me To Suz: Why would you want to go to our High School Reunion??

AND THE INSENSITIVE AWARD GOES TO ME

Responding to someone:
Me: Sorry I was a bitch yesterday. I shouldn't have said anything about your mom. 
Also I did not mean to diminish what you've gone through as just a bad decade. 

From Erik in Que: Hi Ida - Only to say Hello. 

Me: Hi, let me show you an experimental film clip I did Click here for video