https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437107
(Painting not in Public Domain – Photo of painting taken at Met)
Second Granddaughter – 10/13/20
… and with all of these family gatherings, there was only so much she could talk about, wanted to talk about, for she was not like her cousins, or even her sisters and brothers, for sometimes all they wanted to do was talk, talk, talk, and talk about…well nothing, nothing that was new at least, and that was ok…though, everyone talked at once and loud and sometimes one cousin or uncle or whoever, would say something funny, sort of, and everyone would laugh and so would she…but many times she would be laughing because it was funny that they all thought something said was really funny and they all laughed really loud and long even if it was not really funny, and sometimes she had to just get away, after spending enough time sitting by her mom so she wouldn’t say something like she did when she left for school, “If you talk more, you’ll have friends and you won’t be lonely”. And her mom meant well, but then, she would wander off and from a distance, the noise was less and she would think and be herself and she knew that she loved them all, and thought of how she was not lonely, now, for there was a boy who did not talk too much, but he talked to her, and she told no one…
(Note: This Postcard Story (#2) is loosely related to the Postcard Story (#1): Poplars, Eragny – Camille Pissarro – 1885)
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