19th November 2024
Today it’s snowing where I live. My mum has Alzheimer’s and the long sorting of her belongings in the home that she can no longer live in is hard. A stream of objects and glimpses into her past without a sound track to explain the whats, or the whys. Apparently she liked pins. The NUPE union badge I recognise, but the other two are strangers to me. The black and gold name badge for an unknown event. The little elephant earnestly holding its sign… GOOD LUCK.
I might not know the stories, but today that tiny sign made me cry.
