She will be 84 next month, about the time she becomes a great grandma.
She read her book for the gentry of San Miguel about generation
Borrowing a wheelchair for the occasion.
Roots and Seeds, it's called. Tales from a Farmer's Daughter.
You can buy it from Pudding House Press,
more or less.
Photograph by Donna Ferrato, 2006
Now, now.
ReplyDeleteYou musn't compete.
We know you're a brilliant and accomplished journalist.
Leave the Robert Frost stuff to Ma.
I can detect a family resemblance especially Erin, but you as well.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the sewing machine to her left. Who sews?
You swam in a fertile gene pool and now the latest stem in progress is doing the same.
My mother, Hannah and I all sew. I believe that is my lame machine. . .
ReplyDeleteP.S. That's Chris's grandmother to the rear. There is a pic of the two kids and the two grandmothers in profile in which the family pairs look eerily alike.
ReplyDeleteI had NO idea you sew....I would not have thought so...simply because of your travel heavy journalist career...WOW! Did you learn as a youngster?
ReplyDeleteI sew but not so much nowadays . My fav machine is an old Singer, electric. I think the most beautiful and strong stitches are made by the old treadle models.
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CJH: I did learn to sew from my mom as a child. Then as a hippy, I made a lot of my own clothing (if you can call it that), some of which still exists in Claudia's Clothes Museum. I also knitted, crocheted, gardened. This persisted until I had Hannah, at which point it tapered off to the point that now she does my mending!
ReplyDeleteI learned to sew as a child from my Mother as well. Never got the hang of knitting and crocheting but gardening was a required task so I did not appreciate gardening till an adult.
ReplyDeleteI think a tour of Claudia's Clothes Museum would be in order for a future blog subject.
Yes, definitely lets see pics of the Clothes Museum!!!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Please also post the pic of the 2 kids & 2 grandmothers!!!
ReplyDeletemaybe pics of the grandmothers wearing the clothes you made?
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