2025 Life Logs, Day 318: From We the People Class to a Birthday Dinner
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Weather: Sunny; High Temp 46, Low 31 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
This morning was the last ‘We the People’ class I have been attending once a week since September 19. I have not been a good student this fall as I have been too busy to always do the reading for each week, but I am still glad I went to class. For the spring, Jane Scarborough announced today that we will read the book, These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore. Lepore is a Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. This book is not her newest, but it might be her longest at over 900 pages. I’ll put it on my Christmas list, and if I get it for Christmas, I will start the reading during the winter. Maybe by April, I will be ready for the first class.
The class was over at noon. At 1 pm, I had a meeting with the Indivisible Falmouth full steering committee on Zoom. We spent an hour solidifying plans for our next general meeting. Some of us met yesterday to come up with a plan and we worked out the kinks today with the larger group.
Next was a trip to FedEx to send medical forms to my sister’s assisted living facility. I almost fainted when the FedEx guy said the 4 pages would cost $100 to send overnight. The last time I sent something overnight, the cost was $20. That must have been in the Dark Ages!
I ended the day at a birthday dinner for a woman I first met in June. In fact, all the women at the dinner were friends I have met through Indivisible and the Falmouth Immigrant Rights Coalition in the past few months. We chose The Golden Swan, Falmouth’s Indian restaurant, for the affair. I had planned to stay only an hour and then head to Woods Hole for a Falmouth Forum presentation. But we were having so much fun, I just enjoyed the dinner and conversation with new friends.
