Chapter 3: Janet Gone Wild

Janet Trever and Loie's future son-in-law on the right.

I've seen this picture before, but never quite this way.  After reading through Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, I myself feel like flying now that we've reached Chapter 3.  Mom transfers to DU and takes a chance on her iconic eye patch.  She pledges a sorority and finds herself soon on a blind date with the president of a fraternity.  As mom says, "I got three years in the swan pool."

Janet lived a fairytale.  I have stacks of photo albums with picture after picture of formals, theme parties, hikes and drives in the mountains. 

Tarzan party patch on the Eye Patch Quilt.



Chapter 3: I'M A SWAN!

Mom begins chapter 3 saying she always listened carefully when anyone talked about swans.  She loved Hans Christian Anderson's story of the Ugly Duckling, but also references a fairytale of a different sort:

A Hindu story says that swans, as represented in the order of Saraswati, represents the priceless skill of discrimination and discernment.  Supposedly a swan is able to drink in fluid but spit out the water while swallowing the milk that was in the mixture.  It reminds me of Virginia Satir's advice to "taste everything, but swallow only that which fits you."