My foster granddaughter and I had a good time yesterday. That is, after her mom phoned me because the school called and said I hadn't picked her up! I'd been planning on it in the morning, but then I did errands, had lunch, finished my book, took a nap and was about to do my exercise video when I got the call. She was waiting patiently in the office, and luckily, she had a plan - to go to our favorite nursery and look at plants. So I apologized to everyone profusely, and stopped to get her gelato, and then we picked out hyacinth and pansies, and went home and planted them, then got some books at my nearby bookstore (seven houses away), and read and played Uno. She has learned to shuffle pretty well between last week and this week. I loved it that she wanted to look at flowers, and feel proud of the fact that I've been taking her to the nursery since she was a tiny tuppie.
Then I drove her back home and heated two flatbread sandwiches and watched the PBS American Experience on Clinton. No news there, and the basic mystery is still intact - how did he compartmentalize himself so successfully that he didn't think all these affairs would bring him down, or nearly down? It's embarrassing again to see him get a crush on a 21 year old girl. It is a tragedy. I wonder if Kennedy would have been brought down the same way, if he had lived. But the fact that he got away with it may have made Clinton think he would be protected as President. Yes, it wasn't an impeachable offense, but it was mortifying for his family and the country. Yet, we see this story over and over with high officials who believe they are beyond judgment or consequences. The show got one thing abundantly right: when you need everyone to love you, you are lost from yourself. His abandonment as a child hung on him like a drowning cloak.
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