You are currently browsing the daily archive for December 31, 2009.
Christmas–Just days away. Traffic bips along through splashing puddles, merging from one lane to another, zipping from shop to shop. Everyone in a hurry trying to get one more Christmas errand done.
One little red car putters through slippery wet streets on a cold Winter’s day. It’s crammed full of people, spanning four generations of a family. Everyone is bundled up in coats, blankets, hats, mittens. Driver and adult passenger try to engage in a quick moment of adult conversation–intense dialogue about an important family decision: The Old Lady–Will the NEW family Elder-Care plan work? New Baby coos, slipping into a little baby nap. Twenty-month old Toddler sings in full volume, “Oh, Kee-kee-kee!” translated that is “Oh, Christmas Tree!” Eleven year-old Pubescent hollers from the way-back seat, “Mom, can we go get pizza?” And the Old Lady, the Great Grandma, almost 92 years old, sings, too, but a completely different song: “To You, Sweetheart, Aloha.” She sings in full volume, too. All this as the little red auto bops along, chugging to the happy delirium of a Multi-Gen family. Chaos. Crazy love chaos. And the family? It’s mine…
Read the rest of this entry »
On the Mother Lode 