Walker Evans | Couple at Coney Island, New York | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Youngest Daughter - 10/13/20 ...she always loved this photo, first really seeing it as she reached for it, holding on to the fancy end table in her grandparents’ house with one hand, the nearest photo...
My second granddaughter, for her 8th Grade Spanish class, was assigned to write a short essay about someone she knew who had passed away. She wrote about her great-grandmother, and her essay illustrates the bonds of intergenerational love and the power of words spoken in the past by someone now...
Happy 90th Something Birthday to My Second Mom December 1, 2020 Lorraine, Happy, happy birthday! Is this 93? Whatever the year, it is certainly a milestone of life that many do not make and a milestone that we are so happy to see for you, and for us, for the miles traveling along with...
Claude Monet | Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Third Sister - 09/20/20 …and in the afternoon, on her walk around the garden, a little slower now than…ten years ago…yes, she’ll stick with that story…she also looked forward to coming to the bridge,...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489124 Oldest NY Grandson - 09/28/20 …and, no, he wasn’t a clown, he didn’t know why they said that, no fourteen-year-old boy wanted to be a clown, though one friend he had was a clown, because he thought he had to be one to be liked, for attention,...
I collect and keep treasures, I always have. Many I have to this day, a few, taken away from me, have disappeared, others were only mine physically for a short while, but remain and continue to grow within me in worth and beauty, some day by day. Most of the treasures are treasures to...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370476 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson – 08/09/14 …and when the boy opened the box, he just stared at the creature inside and then with wide-eyes, he looked up at his papa and said, “Thank you, papa, for whatever this is, but I really wanted a...
March 2020 (Photo of Uncle Mingo at his 100th Birthday Celebration in March 2019) My uncle, Domingo Orozco, the last of six siblings and all their spouses, the last of his whole generation within our family, passed away one day shy of being 101 years old, a long life by any standard, and one lived...