Thursday July 25th, 2013
My knee hurts. I think I’ve tweaked it from too much
exercising or just running on this uneven terrain.
I’m gonna take it easy but I’m so antsy to be active. I hope
it feels better soon.
While I wove my mat this evening Maja kept shoving his head
directly in my way wanting me to pet him. Performance and Priscilla (my
cousins) came home from school and ate papaya on the steps of my grandmother’s
house as they watched me weave. They handed me a whole papaya and said it was
for me. Later I taught them how the play Egyptian Rat Screw. They would get too
nervous and trigger happy and just keep slapping the table even when it didn’t
make sense to the game. My grandma was passionately conversing on the phone
when I was leaving when she hollered something at me which I took to mean to
come and talk to who was on the phone with her. I took the phone and said
“Hello? Hello?” but I heard no answer. I looked at the phone afraid I had
accidentally hung up but alas I had not. The phone was dead, it had not been on
at all. I looked at it confusingly before I handed the phone back to her where
she proceeded to continue to talk to someone who was not there. It made me
laugh and stare at her lovingly. It made me think of my own grandmother towards
the end of her life. I see no harm in her talking no one. It just made me
wonder if she was lonely or delirious or if she knew it was just for jest but I
guess, does it really matter? As long as it’s real to her and she is happy,
what does it matter if she mutters to a person who isn’t there?
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