2025 Life Logs, Day 115: I Led Three Lives
Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
Weather: Beautiful Day; High Temp 62, Low 54 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I remember a television program called “I Led Three Lives” from when I was in early elementary school. I only remember that it was about a spy, but when I looked up the program, I found the spy’s name was Herbert Philbrick and that he infiltrated communist groups for the FBI. This led to his triple life as a normal US citizen, a communist, and a counterspy.
Well, I am not a spy, nor a communist or a counterspy, but today I led three distinct lives … a student, a leader, a mother. I started out as a student by attending my weekly class focusing on what seven US Presidents did when they left the White House. Today we focused on Grover Cleveland from Chapter 3 of Jared Cohen’s book, “Life After Power.”
After class, I turned on my phone and was instantly transported to my role as a Newcomers-Encore activity leader. Early this morning, notice of a field trip that I am organizing was sent out. It is a trolley tour of Provincetown in early June. By noon, there were 15 people who had responded that they would like to go. So, I needed to pause for a bit to send individual email acknowledgements to everyone that had responded. I was using my phone to do this, so it was a bit slower than if I had been at home.
Now for the third life of the day. I drove from Mashpee across the bridge to Wareham, Mattapoisett, and Marion, to do more boat work research for Heather. This put me in my role as a mother. I was not asked to do this, but when you hear the frustration in your child’s voice, no matter how old the child, you just want to help. The visits today were follow-ups to visits I made on Tuesday. I had fun doing this on Tuesday and even more fun today. Plus, I was much more successful than I had anticipated, so I returned home a happy momma.
Tonight, I am back to just being me (Life #4) which seems to require spending an enormous amount time figuring out how to become an effective political activist (Life #5). This is getting too complicated, too many lives, so I am just going to go to bed!
