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serving as pilgrim Life History Rev. Eric Posa | |||||
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Track 1: Song: "Walking After Midnight" Artist: Patsy Cline I was born in Fort Worth, Texas on November 30, 1971. My parents both had been born into working poor families during the mid-1930s: my father, Gerald Posa, south of Fort Worth; my mother, Retha (born Retha Doyel), in central Oklahoma. They were in their mid- to late-thirties when they had me, their only child. We lived the first 5 1/2 years of my life in the Fort Worth suburb of Forest Hills, then moved to the next town over, Kennedale. Kennedale is only a few miles from Fort Worth, and it borders the very large suburb of Arlington, but it felt more like the small, semi-rural town that really was (and still is): a lower-middle-class town full of service industry and blue collar working folk. My family fit in well there--my dad was a truck driver, while my mom stayed home to take care of her only son. My father was a good man, but we had a distant relationship--he was extremely quiet and reserved, and would be away from home for three or four days at a time making pickups and deliveries for the trucking company. My mother was very practical, outspoken, and independent. She made my formal education a top priority, and pushed me to become one of the two or three top students in my small town's school system. I learned, through her, that women can be strong, and she pushed me to break out of the class oppression we experienced (though I doubt she would have seen it as oppression) through applying my mind at school. I was especially good at math, so she wanted me to be an accountant when I grew up. That didn't work out quite as she'd expected. forward to "Wings of a Dove" | |||||
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