{"id":724,"date":"2008-04-03T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2008-04-03T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T14:06:00","slug":"last-night-i-had-the-strangest-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/03\/last-night-i-had-the-strangest-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I had one of those rare opportunities to meet a living legend last night: Jane Fonda. When I told my dad, earlier in the day, that I’d be meeting her, he excitedly reminded me that he’d taken part in the Concerned Officers Movement, a non-sanctioned network of commissioned officers, including some psychiatrists, when he was in the Navy during Vietnam. I grew up with his stories about his visits to the ships, his work in the hospital, and how he was able to really help some of the sailors, and I felt proud.<\/p>\n

Sitting in a room full of women listening to Jane Fonda read from her memoir (My Life So Far<\/span><\/a>) and then field questions about life, hope, and activism, I felt pride in a woman I had no claim to feel so personally proud of. But proud is what I felt. Proud, perhaps, just to know that there are humans like her. And wishing that this current war had a Jane Fonda, too. (Jodie Evans, of CodePink<\/a>, was among those at the event, and I salute her here as well.)<\/p>\n

And just a note to Girl Sailor<\/a>, my blogging connection to the military and to the brave and heartfelt perspective of a female soldier: I feel proud of you too.<\/p>\n

Ok, am signing off, before I get too verklempt here this morning. But I’ll just say this: it’s so easy to get hardened in this crazy faraway town called NYC, and listening to Jane opens that part of your heart that lets a lot of feeling in, and makes you want to change the world. Again and again and again.<\/p>\n

For Purse Pundit’s take on the evening, click here.<\/a> And gratitude to the WMC<\/a> for facilitating the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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