bye-bye
October 27, 2009
Photo project by iamaustin
Billie Holiday & Lester Young – When You’re Smiling
My grandmother is saying goodbye. She’s as strong as all her family put together but she’s already 92 and thinks life’s counting down. So she’s trying to smile. And to give back to life all that she’s learnt and fight. Because, she says, there’s no need in taking all the wisdom to the grave. So she’s becoming a real life activist. Among her 22 grandchildren and 15 grandgrand children, I’m one of her main targets, to spread her words on useless sadness and the benefits of optimism. So she touches my legs, in disguise, whenever I argue with my dad, or makes a fake smile to turn my blank face into something else. Sometimes she holds my hand and talks talks talks, while growing deaf. And so I get to like old people more than those of my age. It’s only that this sense of finiteness makes them more fragile and, at the same time, deeply alive.
Beautiful words. What a beautiful grandmother!
My parents are old now and are becoming more and more fragile. And I feel too that I love them and comprehend them more and more. Thanks for sharing such lovely feelings. :)
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bjoss
She’s soo beautiful! Thank you for your sweet words.
Aline, Ramiro, Ewa!! Thank you very much for your kind words!! I love my family so much and my grandmother’s the “courage mother” that keeps us all together.