25 June 06

Living Room Full of Half-Full Bottles

Self-portrait in night window My mother left today. Left for Maine. We all went up to Mosquito Ridge Road last night to look for owls. Heard spotted, saw-whet and flammulated but saw none of them. We didn’t get home till about 1:30 pm; she’d been up nearly 24 hours.

My brother has put her on the red eye to Boston this evening in Seattle. I am left with a living room full of the things she removed from her house yesterday morning the movers didn’t take but she couldn’t take, either. We have enough laundry detergent for a year.

Her presence will linger here for a few days as she starts this next chapter in her life.

The self portrait I’ve done today and will post here tomorrow has me looking at my reflection in the kitchen window. It’s dark out. I look tired and feel conflicted. I look like a child, I think, in the drawing. It’s sort of how I feel.

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  1. i understand it so well…
    hugs,
    — Fer Guimaraes Rosa    25. June 2006, 21:36    Link
  2. I hope it all works out for you and your mother, Pica. I assume Maine is the equivalent distance for you as Perth is to us – I hope she will be happy.
    — Jenny    26. June 2006, 01:55    Link
  3. I love this drawing. It captures something very Pica-ish, though I can’t put it into words.
    — dale    26. June 2006, 15:42    Link
  4. Wonderful portrait. You look like Alice in Wonderland. And wonderful words too – so much conveyed so poignantly in few words and snapshot word pictures.
    — Jean    27. June 2006, 05:35    Link
  5. My thoughts are with you, Pica. Last time we talked together, we were in Bodega Bay and now your mother is heading out out my direction. It’s hard to wrap my mind around that kind of shift in personal geography.
    — Tim    27. June 2006, 06:31    Link
  6. You look Uncertain.

    But you aren’t, now (later). I love the knuckle next to your nose. (Also, the sketch makes clear that you still don’t know how pretty you are, how appealing to the eye. But you’re getting there. Look through that lens at the earlier ones.)
    — Doc Rock    28. June 2006, 20:40    Link

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