Technically, you could make it out of a Sarlacc pit alive. It does happen but it’s very unlikely. (I think the interwebs is crediting this image with Dave Dorman.) The day after Christmas I finally bring down the Wigilia and Christmas entries for Babu to read. We read and talk about 6 short passages for…
Category: Reading her own memories
Out of character?
Babu read the passage about Mucha’s over and over as if she were trying to decode something. “I wasn’t that kind of person!” She said. I gave a good natured laugh. “What do you think was going on there?” I ask her and she doesn’t know. “Maybe it was an accident,” I say to soothe…
The many twitches of fate that bring us here.
Babu does not always remember the stories that go along with her 1935 diary entries but sharing these pieces with her is still rewarding. She surprises me with remembering some details from then and at other times she will launch into stories some related to what’s in the entry she is reading and some not….
Like it was Yesterday
After transcribing the first week I typed her passages in large font and brought them to Babu for her to read. As she’s always done, she reads out loud to me in a slow, deliberate voice, looking up often, sometimes off into the distance and sometimes at me. “Drobey…he lived in the same four family…
transcribingmemory 