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New Beginnings

Thursday I went to Pittsburgh with my mom and step-dad to clean out my grandparents’ house. My grandpa (Pap Pap) died about two years ago and like romantic swans, my grandmother (Nana) was heartbroken and followed him a few months ago. Their house in Glenshaw, PA on the outskirts of Pittsburgh sold to a young couple this week. Though it was somber work, I feel lucky to have gone to say my last goodbyes to the house and spirits of my reunited grandparents.

Their ashes were scattered on the bocci court and backyard garden. The plants all around the house were overflowing with life and fullness. I dug up and took some of my Nana’s peonies, poppies, mint, lilly of the valley, daylillies, bluebells, and her favorite flower, the purple iris. While I thinned the garden the air was raining a light mist giving the scene an ethereal glow. The mist made the soil soft and easy for me to lift out the plants; as if my Nana was giving them to me herself.

I am home now and after putting away miscellaneous kitchen items, birdfeeders, windchimes, and transplanting the plants, I am on to the task of going through my Nana’s lifetime collection of fabrics. She was a talented seamstress who sewed for her six daughters, herself, and her grandchildren. I have never seen most of these fabrics, but some take me back to moments of my childhood, like faux fur from my bunny costume for a kindergarden play and a holly motif that she made my sister and I matching Christmas dresses out of. Within three large garbage bags there are hundreds of squares she must have cut out for a quilt, deconstructed dresses she was pirating silk from, fancy scarves and some of the most psychadelic polyester scraps I have ever seen. The latter I am most excited about and will share with you. Get ready for a flashback to the 70’s. The scraps are just wide enough for me to cut perfect rectangles for iPod cases. It’s like it’s meant to be. I am still in the middle of incorporating my inhereted fabrics into my collection of Debris, but felt the urge to write after going through everything. I will scan them soon and add them to the fabrics page on the Customize Your Own iPod Case Form.

My faith in my direction in life has been reinforced and I’m excited to see what next unfolds.

| May 21, 06:00 PM| Breigh