Mine doubled as parents , confidantes ,friend ,role models ,sibling everything .The were the ones that offered stability in my life ,everything in my life I owe to them both.They spoilt me with so much love that I use them as yardsticks and everyone always fall short of it.Planned to name my daughter after my grandma Grace Rathnbai but decided against it,my daughter has suffered a lot from conception I did not want her to suffer in her life too like my grandma did
- curry leaves
- coconut oil
- bulls eye
- any senior person
- sometimes the smell on my daughter’s head
- turmeric
- trees
- the color green
- chocolates
- Ice cream
- coffee that tastes bitter
- puttu
- Idli
- drumsticks
- Bible
- church
- Christmas
- Lent season
- Fish
- Wrinkled hands
- Breeze
- sand
All these remind me of you ammachi ,when I say remind I don’t mean I forget you for even a second ,you are like program that always running on my brain but these thing cause an interrupt in my program that I stop all other tasks and think of you more
Why did you leave thatha alone , I know you had Alzheimer’s but couldn’t you have stayed a bit longer ,I miss you a lot.
I called my grandma Ammachi too, I miss her! So many things on your list remind me of home…well, “home” when I was growing up.
grandparents are the best
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