mo ya babushka
I saw my grandmother walking the streets of dc today.
ok, so she wasn't my grandmother, but she could have been. and she was somebody's grandmother, I know.
and i wanted to know how she ended up on the streets of dc. pushing that grocery cart full of boxes and loose mattress pads.
perhaps her family doesn't know what became of her. perhaps she's one of the thousands of missing persons in the world, and maybe they've given her up for dead, but at least they miss her, and still think kindly of her.
I imagined a plot line thick with espianoge, and deceit. coupled with a touch of amnesia to explain why she hasn't recalled her previous life, dropped what she's doing and gone miraculously back to the family who knows and loves her. This woman has lived quite an exciting life in my mind. a car accident that produced a jane doe with a massive concussion and temporal amnesia. a life stopped in the middle of a journey and trasported to a completely unknown path. She dreams, once in a while, of a different life but cannot believe that her dreams could be real. all the while her son-in-law reaps the benefits of declaring her dead, and uses his wife's inheritance to live the good life.
only, don't let her be like the millions of other homeless on the streets. unloved and unmissed. let her family be ignorant of her current state, so that they do not feel shame for knowing her and being unfortunately related. let her history and situation be full of adventure, and a comedy of errors. let her memory maintain that pride that she deserves. only let her family and her past respect her, and honor her.
let her die with respect in the minds of others, when she is unable to live with it.
ok, so she wasn't my grandmother, but she could have been. and she was somebody's grandmother, I know.
and i wanted to know how she ended up on the streets of dc. pushing that grocery cart full of boxes and loose mattress pads.
perhaps her family doesn't know what became of her. perhaps she's one of the thousands of missing persons in the world, and maybe they've given her up for dead, but at least they miss her, and still think kindly of her.
I imagined a plot line thick with espianoge, and deceit. coupled with a touch of amnesia to explain why she hasn't recalled her previous life, dropped what she's doing and gone miraculously back to the family who knows and loves her. This woman has lived quite an exciting life in my mind. a car accident that produced a jane doe with a massive concussion and temporal amnesia. a life stopped in the middle of a journey and trasported to a completely unknown path. She dreams, once in a while, of a different life but cannot believe that her dreams could be real. all the while her son-in-law reaps the benefits of declaring her dead, and uses his wife's inheritance to live the good life.
only, don't let her be like the millions of other homeless on the streets. unloved and unmissed. let her family be ignorant of her current state, so that they do not feel shame for knowing her and being unfortunately related. let her history and situation be full of adventure, and a comedy of errors. let her memory maintain that pride that she deserves. only let her family and her past respect her, and honor her.
let her die with respect in the minds of others, when she is unable to live with it.