A Day in the Life

Tiresome to work so hard the way I did yesterday, up at 5, yoga at 7, food-shopping 'til 9 then fanny to the chair like any good grownup trying to earn a dollar. No breakfast ‘til 10, no lunch ‘til 4, no supper ‘til ‘8 – but one good thing came of all this work: for the anniversary of Ted Kennedy's death I wrote a few words about Rosemary Kennedy and sent it off to the Huffington Post, along with both a picture of that poor girl as my family knew her and the scanned-in letter she wrote to us just six months before her lobotomy.I did this in honor of Teddy and of Eunice, who did so much for people like Rosemary. All these years later no one seems to really know what was wrong with her. Was she merely slow, or emotionally disturbed too? Or did she have some totally treatable affliction like Tourette’s?Never mind. She is safe now and out of the rain, as are all but one of her siblings.Tomorrow I'll probably go back to cracking jokes and posting pictures of cats writing emails but for now this, Teddy eulogizing the second of his slain brothers, just because it is so very moving.  Then click here , and see his poor sister's letter.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwmmdKMuUqY&feature=related]