They line up in this kitchen cupboard: women in my family who have passed on. I rearrange them and change my mom's photo every so often. Thanks to my dad, I have many to choose from. I need to add some: my maternal grandmother, who died before I was born; my cousin Terry; my cousin Dotty; and I hope that's all.
Top, L-R: Great-Aunt Margaret, her daughter Peggy, young Peggy with my great-grandmother Margaret Campbell, my paternal grandmother Alice Campbell, and my father's sister Estare ("Aunt Babe").
Bottom, L-R: My mother, my daughter Gillian, and my mother's sisters, Charlotte and Elsie.
Monday, February 26, 2018
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27/ Places: Selling Stuff
I've been selling stuff (there's no better word to describe things we've owned but no longer want) online for a dozen or more ye...
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My parents lived in Greenwich Village when I was born, but moved to Queens when I was still very young. They chose an apartment in Woodside ...
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1952, age 9: Newly motherless and too young to fully appreciate the effort it must have taken my dad to have a tree and gifts that year, I s...
This is absolutely beautiful. (And I hope that's all too.)
ReplyDeleteYou aren't related to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, are you?
ReplyDeleteI think I'm more likely related to Mr. Patrick Campbell. :-)
DeleteLovely... like a shrine.
ReplyDeleteIt looks even more shrine-like when I light little tealights (the electronic kind) sometimes.
DeleteBeautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteLovely. I recognized your daughter and your mother.
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