Recently I watched Grey Gardens. It’s a disturbing, yet fascinating, documentary about “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale and her daughter, “Little Edie”.   These relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis live in their dilapidated mansion named Grey Gardens.   The documentary was filmed in 1975 and it shows the two women living in appalling conditions, fighting over things that happened years ago and trapped in their own world.

Here’s a clip from the movie:

After watching the movie I vowed . . .

• to have a clean house
• if raccoons ever live in my attic I will remove them and not bring them loaves of bread to eat
• to value litter boxes and change them frequently
• to socialize more to make sure that I don’t go all Little Edie
• to live in the present
• to have a clean house

And despite it all, I think that if I ever would have met Little Edie that we would have been friends. She had a bizarre fashion sense, but the woman had style.  She was lost in the past, but seemed to see the general human condition with clarity.  Yes, we would have been friends. I just wouldn’t have spent much time inside her house.