Several memories I made last summer, 2025 travel, are truly wonderful ones I will always cherish.
The morning after attending my 50th High School Reunion in northeast Indiana I drove to West Lafayette where I attended college and grad school. and was awarded degrees in anthropology. The mentorship of mega-intelligent women in Anthropology made the decision to leave behind my almost completed clincical psychology major one of the best decisions of my life.
I was delighted to spend an afternoon of releasing Monarch Butterfles with both my major professor, Myrdene Anderson, and the woman who introduced me to primatology and grounded me in biological anthropology, Dr. Judith Breuggeman, and several women who also love Myrdene. We celebrated her 91st birthday.
Monarchs emerging:
I would so have loved to have spent a ton more time, days and days, with Myrdene, but I knew she had just flown in from the West Coast, Washington I think, that morning, And she was leaving for Europe within a few days. So I decided to go to my hotel late in the afternoon.
I had planned to spend the next day with her, but I became ill the next morning and there was no way I was going to expose her on the slight chance I was infectious. I do not think I was contagious. I think I was dealing with some deep unprocessed stuff that came up being back in my home town, and from walking across the bridge over the Wabash River to some of the haunts I shared with a long-time relationship . I will put up another post on these topics. Definiitely autoethnographic.
B is for Butterflies
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