The Stone House
We huddle past times the bathroom inwards the stone fireplace, trying to convey lx years of living inwards this solid to some form of end. This stone solid has seen everything, nativity as well as death, union as well as divorce, as well as tragedy as well as triumph. Now it hears nothing, feels nothing.
By Karen Brenner
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After lunch, the grown -ups would accept a nap inwards the high estrus of the afternoon. We would last dorsum exterior again, sheltered past times the tall pecan trees, lying on mama's quilts, reading the books from Miss Chester Good's library.
In the brilliant blueish Octobers, nosotros would assemble pecans inwards our skirts. Mama said they were newspaper shell, the best pecans. When nosotros shelled the pecans, our hands would last scratched as well as sore at the destination of the afternoon, only in that location would last a big bowl of pecans fix for the Christmas fudge.
Coming abode from rehearsing the Christmas chorale, the solid would last filled amongst the glorious smells of chocolate.
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Spring tin come upward early on to North Texas. Sometimes, the wild flowers are out past times Valentine's Day. Mama said to spotter the pecan trees; they were never fooled past times warm Feb days. She would remind us of the quondam Texas saying,
"If it thunders inwards February, it volition freeze inwards April".
But ever past times Easter the lawn was a rug of wildflowers, the Indian paintbrush, vino cups, as well as mama's dearest blueish bonnets. And as well as therefore it was summertime again, as well as in that location was ever the cool fastness of the pretty stone house.
The see for a solid built of stone was born on the solar daytime that Mama as well as Daddy were on a corn run. The farmer was hauling rocks out of his lately cleared plain when they drove upward amongst a truck total of feed corn. Mama noticed how the Sun made the rocks sparkle. They took a closer look, as well as daddy offered the farmer the corn for free, if they could haul those rocks dorsum to North Texas. The farmer see daddy was crazy for trading a truck charge of practiced corn for some quondam rocks, only they shook hands on it.
Daddy knew those quondam rocks were petrified wood. He saw the fossils of leaves, the fans of ancient ferns, as well as the actual logs inwards the stone. Dad built their solid out of these quondam rocks. The fireplace was designed past times Mama. It was built of the same petrified forest that enclosed the house. The stone sparkled as well as gleamed inwards sunlight or firelight.
The stone solid raised iv children, heard pianoforte lessons, the 7 exercise harmony of identify unit of measurement reunions, as well as the repose of moisture Dominicus afternoons. It provided a identify for a dying Grandmother; held a wedding, as well as 5 years later, a funeral for the groom.
Then the stone solid held alone Mama. There was a novel circular of birthday parties amongst lamb cake, singing parties, pianoforte concerts, weddings of the grandchildren. One of the brilliant blueish Oct days, Mama left her stone solid forever, the means she said she would: feet first, amongst her boots on.
That February, restrict did non come upward early on to North Texas. The pecan trees held tightly to their closed, fuzzy buds. All the wild flowers waited for the wise pecan trees.
My sisters as well as I sit down past times the fireplace inwards the empty solid as well as form out boxes as well as boxes of photographs. The stone solid is desperately cold.
We huddle past times the bathroom inwards the stone fireplace, trying to convey lx years of living inwards this solid to some form of end. This stone solid has seen everything, nativity as well as death, union as well as divorce, as well as tragedy as well as triumph. Now it hears nothing, feels nothing.
This stone solid has been through everything except abandonment. Now nosotros must move out it.
We, who know this solid similar our ain bodies, must move out this solid that has never left us. We split upward the pictures as well as endeavor to separate evenly the photos of mama as well as daddy.
Those people who expect out of strangers' eyes inwards the faded sepia are added to the forest fire. The photographs ringlet as well as burn. Suddenly in that location is thunder.
We expect at each other as well as say, "It volition freeze inwards April."
And nosotros know that past times April, this solid that nosotros lived inwards for therefore many years, volition last gone as well as volition alive on alone within of us.
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Tom as well as Karen Brenner are Montessori Gerontologists, researchers, consultants, trainers as well as writers dedicated to working for civilization alter inwards the plain of aging. Tom is a gerontologist as well as has specialized inwards creating as well as researching dementia specific preparation programs. Karen Brenner is a Montessori educator as well as has specialized inwards working amongst children who are deaf or communication disordered. They cause got been published inwards magazines as well as journals both inwards the the U.S. of A. as well as internationally. Learn to a greater extent than close Tom as well as Karen at Brenner Pathways
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