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How will my mother look now?

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'How will my mother look now?'~ Rosa Carrafa H ow will my mother look now? I look at myself as I stand in front of the mirror as I drape my fine knit cardigan over my shoulders and wonder,  ' would my mother have looked like me at my age?' I have only my thoughts to keep me from drawing her face as she may have been. How do I do this when I literally am living older than my mother?  I sigh a long heavy breath as a lean to my left side with my left hand on my waist and gently outline my jawline with my right. I touch my chin and then lean forward. My chin is that of my father's, with the little cleft in the center. I smile and my thoughts immediately went to my himas I remember him smiling while his chin was home to his deep cleft. My eyes wondered over my facial features in hope that I have something of my mother here in front of me. Maybe I have forgotten what she looked like? I panicked. I crossed my right arm across to m