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Chapter 15 – Peggy meets with Tina
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Bette: Will you promise not to try to micro-manage what I do in the position?
Helena: I will ask for reports from time to time as to what is going on in your area. I may ask if I can assist you with anything. But I will let you define what I can do to help you. You will have full autonomy to run your division. As long as the reports are made to the board are timely and complete and are within the guidelines and goals of the board, you will not be managed whatsoever. In fact, I don’t want to manage you. You set your agenda. You set your schedule. You set the budget, and it will be approved by the board. And as long as you are within budget and within the guidelines, you will have free range to do as you see fit. Should you want to do something outside of that, you will have to get board approval prior to acting. But the board will work with you just as they have worked with Mother.
Bette: Well, that is good to hear. And now that you have said this in front of witnesses, I can hold you to it?
Helena: Absolutely.
Bette: Is there anything you are expecting from me should I take this job?
Helena: I expect you to do the job to the best of your ability for the benefit of the Foundation and the art world. I would hope that you will not have to work more that 30 or 40 hours a week once we get fully staffed and relocated. I expect you to talk to me about all travel plans and coordinate with the Social Services Director’s plans so that the plane can be used in the most economical way.
Bette: What do you mean?
Helena: Suppose you need to go to Boston to see a couple of new artist or venues and in the near future the Social Services director needs to visit some charitable organization to evaluate their needs and financial condition. Well, if you can get your appointments on the same days and can agree that you need to go for the same length of time, then we can consolidate your trips into one plane flight there and back instead of two separate trips. Travel outside of salaries are the largest administrative expense the Foundation has. It’s the one thing we need to watch closely.
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Looks like their new work path has been decided and I’m pleased i was right that Peggy offered the job to Tina and that she took it.
Tina moving back officially to their home, it’s all coming together although they still need to have to do much work to be officially a couple again and both are committed to do that. I’m positive they will succeed.
Peggy, i love her, such a smart, strong and remarkable woman. She warned Tina to be really sure that she does want to be with Bette because Bette can’t handle it another time if she walks out on her again. Peggy knows Bette really well and in, my opinion she is the mother figure that Bette needs and sees in her. I love their relationship and i understand why Helena felt threatened all those years ago but i don’t approve what she did, trying to destroy Bette, in her personal and work life. I really hated Helena those seasons but began to tolerate her near the end of The L Word, okay maybe even liked her a bit.
Saw a notification you posted the next chapter, will read that today as well.
Peggy and Helena do not play very much of a role in the rest of this story. I agree that Peggy is the mother figure in Bette’s life. That was the motivation behind all of Helena’s antics in The L Word. Tina’s conversation with Bette yesterday shows that Helena and Peggy have reconciled their differences. Everyone is aware of Helena’s past.
Bette and Tina are heading back to Los Angeles and to begin their process of working out their relationship and their life as being parents to Angie.
In the L Word, Helena drastically changed. There were two motivations for that. Peggy cuts off her money and she ends up in prison for her bad decisions. I think believe those two things gave her motivation to be more respectful of others and that how powerful using money can be as a weapon. But she does come to Kit’s aid with that money to get rid of Dawn Denbo. That is when I truly began to like Helena. And I truly like Dylan with Helena. I think Dylan made some bad decisions but showed her true feelings when she returned the check to Helena from the settlement. That said to me that Helena meant more to her than money. Not many people would tear up a check for $250,000 and send it back. That is when I knew that Dylan was more than just some conn artist and she truly had feelings for Helena.
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And there it is ……….
I would like to offer you the position as Executive Director of the Peabody Social Services Foundation. I believe that you have the talent and the skills to direct the foundation and select the organizations which are worthy of financial support to make the lives of others a little better.
I could not think of a better team to take The Peabody Foundation into the Future.
Helena has grown and become very committed and will make an excellent Director of The Peabody Foundation.
Assisted by Dylan for guidance and advise and to also keep her grounded!
Peggy has groomed her and now feels Helena is ready to step into her shoes. I still can’t help thinking Peggy will be watching from the wings!
Bette as we know is a world class Art Dealer and Gallerist. What she doesn’t know about the Art World you could write on a stamp!
And Tina, Tina loved her role in Social Services all those years ago, helping communities and families and children who were underprivileged. She will make an excellent Executive Director as well.
This is a very formidable group of Womem, sure they will be a force to be reckoned with! Peggy Peabody is a very clever, shrewd and adventurous business woman!
I really enjoy the interaction and love this group of women share. I know Bette has alway look towards Peggy as a substitute mother and have a very special bond. It also seems Tina is becoming very attached to Marilyn, seeing signs in her that she finds and wanted in a mother figure.
It seems Bette and Tina are moving forward with their reconciliation plan, holiday in Europe, time moving back in to Bette’s house and possibly her bed! They just have to talk to Angie now and explain to her, they are taking it easy but want to be together, although I have a suspicion Angie already knows !
I can never get over how these people ‘live in another world!’
Flat in London, Beach House in Malibu, home in the Caribbean, possible new home in Scotland……. Peggy has worked hard for her lifestyle but all the same, I could never imagine such a lifestyle !
Janice,
Helena and Dylan have a separate residence from Peggy and Marilyn in Malibu. I believe I wrote that Helena wanted to be the queen bee and not a worker bee. And that is exactly what she will be. As long as things are going as proscribed by the board, both Bette and Tina will run their own divisions independently and without much involvement from Helena. And I believe that Bette and Tina will be able to have normal work hours and have plenty of time to spend with Angie before she goes off to college.
I am not sure exactly how Peggy came into her money. Possibly in a divorce settlement with Helena’s father? Possibly her own inheritance from her parents? I get the feeling that Peggy is very well educated but her estate is composed of old money and not something she earned during her lifetime. People with money who are involved in philanthropy, usually have generational wealth and not earned wealth. There are exceptions – Bill Gates, and others who have made money from software applications, cell phones, social media, and other ventures. I would say that Peggy’s life is philanthropy and the promotion of arts. I do not get the vibes that she is a businesswoman per se, but she knows how to run and organization to accomplish what she wants to accomplish. She has associated with people similar to her all of her life. She is an interesting character.
Bette and Tina do plan to explain to Angie what is going on as soon as possible. But as Shane said back during the election, Angie may know more than you think, however talk to her and keep her informed as to what is going on. And it has been a dramatic week in New York.
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PS – Please look at your messages. I have two private messages to you which I hope you will respond to.