“image of the month” Aunt Violet #7
for april’s “image of the month” i’m choosing to honor my lovely aunt violet since her birthday is april 10th. well, was. this will be the 6th year without her here yet heck, she did live ’till 100. even so i still wish i could pick up the phone to hear her kind voice cheering me on. i do know she’s with me, for sure.
at the time of this photo she was about 99 & had been living in a nursing home close to my house for a couple of years. you can read the whole story here. mostly i was alone on my visits with her, however on this particular day an old friend joined me. i was so grateful and relieved, since we were able to spend our visit outside – something we rarely were able to do. what a treat! it was simply too physically demanding for me to negotiate getting her in & out. it was a gorgeous late summer afternoon. i leaned on him to do all the heavy lifting.
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.” Hafiz
as we all sat there chatting, laughing and enjoying our time together a fascinating thing started to occur. my aunt began moving her hands and arms in very measured, graceful gestures while her face was awash with tranquility. her movements were pure poetry. i was mesmerized. i realized she was doing t’ai chi as she had learned more than a decade prior. in between she would pause (as seen in this photo), contemplate and then either carry on with her practice or gaze over at us smiling with utter joy. Aunt Violet #7 is from the series, Aunt Violet.
Aunt Violet #7
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