Thank you, Aunt Yvonne, player of piano and guitar, attention-payer to us kids, former nun, high school home-economics teacher, finder of love late in life, for introducing me to pecan pie. 🙏❤️
I love everything about this one, Elizabeth... from the art on the walls (yours and hers), to the way our surroundings become things that simply are (often over decades), the lost seed packets (wow, I get that), the many cookbooks you don't use, the new and old version of the one, your mother's wish for continuity, your words about treasuring the sticky note with her handwriting, and the meditation on name changes... all of it. There's a wonderful throughline that pulls the reader right along. And did you like broccoli cornbread....?
Great line: "Meaning seems to travel this way—imperfectly, sideways, often without anyone’s explicit consent or intent."
Thank you, Aunt Yvonne, player of piano and guitar, attention-payer to us kids, former nun, high school home-economics teacher, finder of love late in life, for introducing me to pecan pie. 🙏❤️
Ah, Don. This is lovely. Aunt Yvonne sounds like someone who'd be a delight to know, and pecan pie. Yum!
Wow..too beautiful and personal for me to comment.. except to say...LOVED ALL YOU WROTE....priceless...
Memories are often rekindled "just in time"
Here's one! Sleeping in the loft at our old log cabin, my mother decided to start breakfast. She lit the wood stove directly beneath.
But she put the 'chamber pot' which had been in the outhouse, on the stove first!
Guess how quickly we rose!!!
I love everything about this one, Elizabeth... from the art on the walls (yours and hers), to the way our surroundings become things that simply are (often over decades), the lost seed packets (wow, I get that), the many cookbooks you don't use, the new and old version of the one, your mother's wish for continuity, your words about treasuring the sticky note with her handwriting, and the meditation on name changes... all of it. There's a wonderful throughline that pulls the reader right along. And did you like broccoli cornbread....?
Great line: "Meaning seems to travel this way—imperfectly, sideways, often without anyone’s explicit consent or intent."