Shelby Dupree, ex-law student and writer of stories.: And we really lived most of it

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

And we really lived most of it

Louisa May Alcott wrote of the simple, the true, and of what she really lived (most of it). So inspiring.

3 comments:

Suzette Saxton said...: Thanks for this, Shelby. You've inspired me. My daughters and I are going to watch Anne of Green Gables (wish I had Little Women!) and sew winter quilts while the snow falls outside.

Thanks, too, for the lovely Christmas music.; December 29, 2009 11:15 AM
theycallmejane said...: This rendition is one of my daughter's and my favorites! Thanks for sharing it. It was fun to see it again.; December 31, 2009 8:34 AM
Elk Lighting said...: Thanks for putting this on.; January 4, 2010 5:27 PM

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May it please the Court.

My name is Shelby Dupree and I am counsel for the . . .

This is a case about a girl who tried to beat the odds (and still will).

She went to law school last year at age forty (ok, now it's been a couple years and now I'm early mid-forties), with a husband and two teenagers in tow. She worked her @#$ off, and is now working full time as a para "worker" - a job she would almost do for free because she enjoys it so (I just got a very small raise, so I actually do the job for almost free).

She loves the law. Pure and simple, and she'll never do anything else.

The law is an addiction - Shelby's all consuming passion.

"The issue here is the rule of law." - spoken by Judge Michael P. Mills, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi, in a recent sentencing hearing in a tragic case of corruption too close to home for comfort.
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I'm a southerner, in the true-ist sense of the word. I'm an old soul, my accent is sweet and I simply adore the story telling of my people - and Pat Conroy is one of the best storyists evuh.

Shelby Dupree, ex-law student and writer of stories.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

And we really lived most of it

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