We ALL know family is important. We also know how important the formative years are for children. And we don’t ever want to forget the time we spent with our mothers and grandmothers because of how magical it was. The following are mind excerpts from my childhood.
My brother and I had to spend time with our paternal grandmother because our father would send us. We did love her food and her rustic way of cooking, especially her pan cooked bread which was divine. Cooking green beans reminds me of her too. It was different living because we ran over endless grass that cushioned every fall, unlike the city cement. The other grandmother lived on the opposite side of the country and we didn’t see her much(big regrets on that).
Both grandmothers had their own gardens and everything was fresh. The only camera me and my brother have left is in our memories as there are very little photographs of them. If you could only imagine the joy of my maternal gran when we showed up at her gate, how overwhelmed she was to see us, and we got smooched up and hugged. No care in the world atmosphere, picking up what we wanted from the garden and eating it because it was all so clean and power grans didn’t use preservatives or chemicals. I got to watch her make bread and bake it in her outdoor oven, it was like watching an ancient ritual!
Maybe the best part about visiting our maternal gran was the rose jam she made, with the roses growing in a big bush outside. I could actually watch her pick the flowers carefully, then seeing the end result on my sliced bread. There was watermelon that we didn’t buy because the grans were growing them as well as having a vineyard. So in the evenings we got to have a little cup of homemade wine.
They probably had no idea about the #LegacyOfLove they were leaving behind. Maybe they had thoughts of a time they’d be stored up in mind photos as well as physical ones. Mothers have superpowers to make even the slightest ailment go away with a touch much like the grandmother’s joy will never be forgotten. Lesson learned to take more photos to capture it all for later.
Our Grandmothers and Mothers teach their kids and grandkids so much through how they handle life’s challenges. Like resilience, that we later as adults don’t make an effort to remember, it was subconsciously recorded, much like their timeless impact. You’re lucky if your grandmothers are still around. I wish I’d picked their brains more but as a kid I was very much focused on exploring her micro universe that their gardens and houses were then.
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Written by Elena for Deutsch Photo.
