For the first time in this process I got my mind really blown, nostalgically. These “holiday specials” I thought up at random really have a surprising effect. I have read and transcribed three years of New Year’s Eves and Days. I don’t know why this didn’t happen over the Christmas and Wigilia entries, but I…
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The Sarlacc Pit of Time
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…
Everyone Loves a Christmas Special 1935, 36, 37
Wednesday, December 25, 1935 A happy Christmas day. Only Jaime disappointed me. He sent me a sweetheart card (I hate that) and a 5lb box of candy. Zosh and I saw “The Crusades.” She had supper up the house. Our story teller “Mike” was there, too. Then I played and we sang Christmas carols. (Oh…
All I want for Wigilia…
…is to find Babu’s 1934 diary – and any others! Call me greedy. I want to never run out of this work. Aaaannnddd who doesn’t love a holiday special? Here are three years of Wigilia entries: Tuesday December 24, 1935 Had X-mas supper with the Olbrychs at our house. Got no presents but don’t mind…
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…
Excerpt #3
Tuesday, January 15, 1935 I found out today that Adele Janik is wearing WBZ’s class pin and Jenete told me he pushed all the boys away that he was talking to and walked Janet Overbaugh. Can’t he choose between the two. Father B said “Hello Emily” to me at Falcons today. He likes Jenete.
The Third Week of 1935
WBZ is being a card. He likes two girls, one is nemesis AJ, and neither one is Babu. She criticizes him but I think she would still take his class pin if he offered it! 😉 She goes skating for the first time and falls, but has faith she’ll get better but the next day…
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….
The Second Week of 1935
She continues to work on her theme which has no title and goes to a group meeting for something called the Falcons. Adam says that might have something to do with exercise? But I really don’t think so! I smell the next research project coming up! She feels she got no chance at auditions for the…
The Poli
Babu always complains about her memory and brain capacity these days. I will never understand until I am much older but I sympathize. “Never get old.” Babu’s mother always told her that and now she tells it to me. However, this woman is amazing for 97! She remembers so many details as we go through…
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…
Excerpt #1
Saturday January 5, 1935 “We” went sliding tonight and I enjoyed myself. Drobey doesn’t seem to be afraid of me anymore. He says “How about letting me read your 1934 diary. I shouldn’t want him to because I was silly about him, but that’s all over now. Sophie’s permanent came out wonderfully.
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