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Eve Drewelowe autobiographical writing, 1980s
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[unreadable]Capitol of universe. In viewing and receiving wonders of the world, I am increasingly impressed by this. I'm thinking water - oceans - how can one ever get beyond the vastness - of the oceans - living in the dry areas - I am virtually struck with awe - at the distribution of land and water - the arrangement of the powerful magnet which must hold the water in place. The contradiction of flatness and the spherical body of water levels, yet the world is round. Do much better to pre-focus minds dream of star sky [?ability] rather than stop war. Stretches credibility. It was a matter of unqualifiedly pertaining to a measure of self preservation---of the existing being. As we all know, I have been a creature strung on wires. Never in my life having been satisfied by doing one thing at a times--usually they overstaffed and many times lost because of the time to fully expose overstaffing urgency. I am a private person. Up until which now, I had my private life, plus I tried to satisfy and share. I assume- the [s?] was expected to be the stereotyped faculty [unreadable]. Dean's wife no provision was made for entertaining the new faculty as it was open policy to have all the new faculty members to dinner. Mostly I air-bubbled the expectations. I diffused. I refused to wear hats and gloves when Emily Post demanded hats! I would not carry around personal engraved calling cards to faculty ladies of an afternoon. I refused to join their organization but I was a charter member of the [B.a q?] helped it to become airborne and if to this day as forwarded made and recorded the art scene if only complete history or [unreadable]. The powers that were imposed "I thought" outrageous demands on me. I have contended my mom didn't know she loved me, more than a middle sibling child, wedged among 7 at the top 4 at the end. I assume I was a gifted child but I have been denied special help even.. My bio [unreadable] examines the fact I didn't even have adequate papers even in college. Mom said papers were not known, non existent. It is only in the not-too long ago we seem to [unreadable] and make a fool of me. I love to be alone by myself with an exciting painting under my brushes a head wind. A heady wind moving the impetuous rashly heady exhilarating intoxicating.
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[unreadable]Capitol of universe. In viewing and receiving wonders of the world, I am increasingly impressed by this. I'm thinking water - oceans - how can one ever get beyond the vastness - of the oceans - living in the dry areas - I am virtually struck with awe - at the distribution of land and water - the arrangement of the powerful magnet which must hold the water in place. The contradiction of flatness and the spherical body of water levels, yet the world is round. Do much better to pre-focus minds dream of star sky [?ability] rather than stop war. Stretches credibility. It was a matter of unqualifiedly pertaining to a measure of self preservation---of the existing being. As we all know, I have been a creature strung on wires. Never in my life having been satisfied by doing one thing at a times--usually they overstaffed and many times lost because of the time to fully expose overstaffing urgency. I am a private person. Up until which now, I had my private life, plus I tried to satisfy and share. I assume- the [s?] was expected to be the stereotyped faculty [unreadable]. Dean's wife no provision was made for entertaining the new faculty as it was open policy to have all the new faculty members to dinner. Mostly I air-bubbled the expectations. I diffused. I refused to wear hats and gloves when Emily Post demanded hats! I would not carry around personal engraved calling cards to faculty ladies of an afternoon. I refused to join their organization but I was a charter member of the [B.a q?] helped it to become airborne and if to this day as forwarded made and recorded the art scene if only complete history or [unreadable]. The powers that were imposed "I thought" outrageous demands on me. I have contended my mom didn't know she loved me, more than a middle sibling child, wedged among 7 at the top 4 at the end. I assume I was a gifted child but I have been denied special help even.. My bio [unreadable] examines the fact I didn't even have adequate papers even in college. Mom said papers were not known, non existent. It is only in the not-too long ago we seem to [unreadable] and make a fool of me. I love to be alone by myself with an exciting painting under my brushes a head wind. A heady wind moving the impetuous rashly heady exhilarating intoxicating.
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