In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.
'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.'
My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his hesitation.
'I would like to make myself available to you and the children. I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough.'
'Lynn, we're just beginning to start over again,' he stammered. Still, he couldn't depend on Nate's mother to watch Buckley forever. Four months after my mother left, her temporary absence was beginning to take on the feel of permanence.
My grandmother insisted. I watched her resist the remaining slug of vodka in her glass. 'I will contain my drinking until'- she thought hard here- 'after five o'clock, and,' she said,' what the hell, I'll stop altogether if you should find it necessary.'
'Do you know what you're saying?'
My grandmother felt a clarity from her phone hand down to her pump-encased feet. 'Yes, I do. I think'
It was only after he got off the phone that he let himself wonder, Where will we PUT her?
It was obvious to everyone.
~pgs 213-214; Grandma Lynn and Jack;
Tag: family drinking sacrifices
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
J.K. RowlingTag: death dumbledore sacrifices
This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
Cammie McGovernTag: mothers sacrifices
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.
The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.
Tag: gardening flowers mother choices garden son weeds sacrifices unfairness-of-life weeding
What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
Criss JamiTag: strength compassion energy work stress helping-others hard-work caring other-people sacrifices
Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTag: money happiness jobs sacrifices
Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.
Patricia C. WredeTag: humor family help sacrifices
Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.
Kellie ElmoreTag: love relationships sacrifices
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...
Carlo CollodiTag: love education learning fidelity pinocchio father-and-son sacrifices
Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.
Shannon L. AlderTag: mothers sacrifices arranged-marriages civil-union domestic-partnerships
Pagina 1 di 2.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.