Babu read the new set of passages and remembered a girl in her journal named Jenny and corrected the spelling of her last name. She still has so much of her memory but wont believe it! She even sometimes calls herself a “dumbbell,” which is far from the truth. She remembered that Jenny lived not…
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The First and Second Week of May
The passages that start May are exciting and seem to be a little magical. Maybe I’m just being too sentimental or it’s because as Spring is starting in 1935, it’s also begun here! All of the excitement of a school year coming to a close is buzz-buzzing in her passages. They have gotten their class…
Fourth Week of April, 1935 Excerpt
Tuesday, April 30, 1935 Had a very good lesson today. Joe Grdymir came from Worcester. He kept us drilling from 8 to 11. Now, Diary I’m seldom happy. I have an indescribable lump in my chest because I can’t be popular. You’ve heard this over and over again. Why can’t I be? Never mind. I…
Babu and Drobey sitting walking down the street…not even talking.
I’ve gently pushed, and gently pushd again – but I promise, blog, that I have pushed her for the last time! we read about Babu not going to the show and she said: “I guess I didn’t go with him…” And I even joshed her when we read about Teddy’s admonish of her causing Drobey…
The Fourth Week of April, 1935
Babu has caused Drobey – “Caveman” – not to be able to sleep. Teddy is his ambassador, bringing messages, and potato chip bags back and forth. Babu’s written reaction to this? “Bunk.” She writes a lot about piano lessons. Her teacher is getting lessons her self and now things are much more strict in class….
The Doors in This House 4/3/16
In this house I must keep fighting with the porch door, They close all throughout this house but don’t latch. The only way to win is to slam it hard And wiggle the handle wildly. He wakes from the other room, It’s past noon And is yelling at the sound. We aren’t sleeping well Too…
Dedicated to Stanley Midura
My timing was bad when I brought the newest passages to her. I was giving her her 8:00 pills – bedtime pills – and I had given her her dessert and my cat was meowing in the hallway…Usually the process of reading these diary entries takes a half an hour – and I’ll be honest,…
Third Week of April, 1935
Easter shopping makes one so tired. I bet she looked dazzlingly all decked out. A boy from a class they had together the previous year died. She doesn’t tell us how. She writes something about Caveman, but I swear, it is in code! She talks a lot this month about winter weather in April and…
The Gift That on Most Days She Hasn’t Lost 4/3/16
The Gift That on Most Days She Hasn’t Forgotten 4/3/16 As she continues to translate the prayer From Polish to English One of the ones her father taught her In his slow and deliberate way My mind is not with her. Neither knowing Polish or the lord, I use the long time as she closes…
Babu and Her Father
When I showed the second week of April to Babu it was really the last passage, Sunday, that we spent the most time on. At first I tried to prod her about Drobey AKA “Caveman” and I think the only way I’ll ever know is if I ever find the previous year’s diary. All…
Second Week of April 1935
Babu is so engrossed in a book she can’t do her homework. I looked it up and it was hard to find but it seems to be “There’s Always Tomorrow” by Ursula Parrott, a romance novel. 🙂 She gets her rose shaded glasses and finds out her eyes were pretty bad. To think she sees…
Maps to Where She’s Been
April is National Poetry Month! My mind seemed to have forgotten by not my fingers. I’ve been producing a lot of poems lately. I thought I’d share! Maps to Where She’s Been She fears the murky places in her memory, Places she can no longer go. Ancient cartographers would have simply scrawled “There be dragons”…
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