RuTemple

Ru kicks butt :)

She wrote back my first day on 43 things—and cheered me—thanks for the encouragement…and gave me Dave’s Garden site!(A great site!)

Back in the early 1980s a friend and I had the opportunity to use an early Kurzweil Reading Machine.
It was klunky, but prototyped many things to come.

I met Ru Temple in San Francisco in 2005 while my husband and I were there shooting a video. We had known each other through LJ but had never met, so it was a special delight for me. We enjoyed breakfast and sharing journals, and then took a stroll around the Mission District seeing all the artistic highlights. Ruth has a fabulous sense of humor and is a wonderful talented artist in so many media. My favorite moment was seeing her in her environment – in the sunny parlor (with aged cat and beautiful wall-hangings) in her kitchen where she dyes and bookbinds to the lemon tree in the back yard (from which she makes marmalade.) And she is a bibliophile like I am, so I felt completely at home.

We first met because we were both on the “Contact Dyke” list for Minneapolis with a lesbian zine in the 1980s, and she called up to see who the others in town were. We found cross-connections and friends-in-common and interests-in-common galore, and became immediate lifelong friends.
She’s an artist, photographer, morris dancer, psychicly gifted, and perhaps most importantly Silly person I adore.

I met RuTemple on the phone. We both on the same list, willing to give out information to travelers (must remember to spell with one l) reading a certain newsletter. That was the beginning, and was many long years ago. Do you remember?

Hey! I’ve got DECADES to go before I reture, much less before I cop to getting “old”.
hugs

but, snif nobody’s tagged me yet!

Rutemple is an LJ buddy who regularly inspires me with her businesses that allow her such freedom as well as the joy of pursuing her dreams. She’s a wonderfully strong lady who lives life without apology. One of those women who chose to start wearing Purple LONG before she retired :>.

I love your take on this place: a great way to stay on top of what’s important rather than what’s urgent.
Inspires me to plunk more of those “someday/maybe” wishes out there, out loud, so I can start dreaming toward them a little more fiercely.

hugs