day forty

my grandmother.
2.9.2010

i played with this image of my grandmother as a young woman last night. today i sat with her near, allowing her beauty and presence to speak to me. i think of her often, embody her some, and miss her always. she died may 2002 when i was in kenya. i surround her here in a way i often spent time with her: tending the garden & flowers, picking flowers, and arranging flowers. she was the one to take flowers to the church each sunday or pull out the silk arrangements she purchased and she was the flower committee for the church & church cemetery (at least i remember her as the committee). while i created this last night, i created space to remember her once again today. i allowed the feelings that swell within & swirl around to be present and then i created something else. something new.