Hope Farm by Peggy Frew

Author:Peggy Frew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, FIC044000, FIC019000
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2015-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

So Randal was the first and Bert was the second. Bert who had been camping at the same festival but was from a different commune closer to Brisbane. The time with Bert shouldnt have lasted as long as it did, he turned out to be no good always jealous he frightened me in the end and I had to sneak away in the night. I took Silver back to the city after that, she was old enough to go to school. There was a group house Id heard about, only women. It was a safe place and I got a job in a milk bar while Silver was at school. The women were in to being powerful taking there own lives in to there hands fighting the system all that stuff. I went along with it for a while went to some rallies with them and the groups they held, consciousness raising they called it where they all sat around talking. I understood there ideas I respected them but I didnt feel like they could help me. You should go to university they said, Its free now. I was too embarassed to tell them I hadnt finished high school and even if I had stayed I wouldnt have got the marks any way, nursing was what my parents had thought I might do but I dont even know if Id have got in to that youd need to be better at reading and writing, they were my real problems. It felt strange to think back on that. It seemed so long ago and how funny to think my only troubles then were bluffing my way through English classes fingers crossed under the desk Id never be called on to read out loud. There was some thing in these women I was afraid of they were so tough they were always saying women could do any thing there was no reason why not, I didnt think theyd understand if I tried to explain about my reading and writing theyd be like my mother and just say I wasnt trying. Then I met somebody else he was a teacher and he played the piano. But some thing went wrong like always, I was starting to expect it even when things were so new and beautiful I always knew nothing that good could last. Towards the end he started saying things like We can do this its worth saving, but the more he said those things the less I was able to even try. Well he said, It seems to me you want this to end, this thing between us. I never answered I just started to pack. He was a good man and I still feel sad I couldnt make it work between us. The house of women had gone the group broken up so I went back to The Path for a while to the first ashram. There was nowhere else to go and I knew theyd take me in, they had to they had to always be kind and generous it was there basic rule.

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