Saturday, June 22, 2024

Saturday June 22nd 2024 - THE SUMMER OF 2024

     My job now is to try to stitch myself back together into a passable human being.  I'm no sewer like my sister Rhetta.or my other sister Brumas, stitched to her wheelchair, her home, and her trans-husband Charlize, a possible wolf in sheeps' clothing.  I wonder what her tranquilized thoughts are...seldom of me and mine, mostly angered thoughts of her daughter-in-law.  

Her daughter in law is most lucky to have Matthew Katzenbach as her husband.  He is a great and gentle mind concerned more with love than law. He uses his courtroom as an encanto to the distraught vics,  perps, and jurists.    Coming from a long line of surgeons and prominent attorneys (in current history-Atty General Nicholas K, who faced Gov. Wallace on public school segregation).  His calm kind ways keep us basted together so that our familial connection remains. Connections that are tenuous for lack of use.

I am thinking of my grandmother, Mama Georgia, for whom I was named, and her embroidery. She used to embroider pillow cases.  

I hope I become the beneficiary of the backbone of the well-woven.

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

THE TEA CUP WHALE STORY

The tea cup whale image came out of the bordom of camping in the rain with my then-husband Philip, whenever we got any time off from our jobs as correction officers in the city's Rockefekker (or Rockefeller--Who Else But Nelse?- Rockefeller and his girlfriend, Happy)Actually, it was a knickname given to one of his friends by the 'crowd' (not gang) of guys, perhaps by another member--Piggy Paully who was reputed to be as High in width (laying down {supine} ya know, on his back. I don't remember any specific episodes ever being spoken, much less written.I've been thinking and reading Moby Dick (Herman Melville) and maybe, for me, there is some brain whizzing connection occurring.Perhaps, the next time I see Ember and Twyla I might ask if they have any ideas for a whale adventure. Fun to think about.