The Chattering Crow: Portrait of an old lady.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Portrait of an old lady.

Tom found this photo of me on his computer earlier today. Nice lighting. I'd like to say I'm praying, but in fact, I'm playing Ms. PacMan. If the thumbs were pressed down, I could be holding a small Bible instead of a joy stick. I could do a charcoal drawing and change the thumbs. Or I could just draw the head and leave the hands out altogether.

Or I could just keep on blathering about it.

6 comments:

SarahMay 20, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Drawing! Drawing! Drawing! Do it, Louise.
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AnnMay 20, 2013 at 9:39 AM
What Sarah said!!!!
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Bonnie WhiteMay 20, 2013 at 9:43 AM
I do like the lighting and I like that you play video games. Are you competitive?
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twebsterarmstrongMay 20, 2013 at 5:10 PM
I sure thought it was a prayer.
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MandyMay 20, 2013 at 10:54 PM
That's it. I've read your blog for over a year but never commented. This post deserved a comment. You are so dang funny Louise. I'm so glad you play video games and post about it. I'm confident you're prayerful too. I took classes from you at BYU (1998-99 maybe). I may or may not have named my baby girl Eloise after you. Please keep posting, praying and playing Ms. Pacman. Your writing makes me smile.
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"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Victor Hugo
"I don't want the damned sportsmanship award."
"Jesus glows in the dark like my pajama tops" George Plummer, age 4
"Our parents are crazy as hell." Sam Plummer, 2016
"Grandma, your hands are old." Sally Plummer, age 3.
"Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." Wendell Berry
"Sitting is the new smoking is the new bullshit." Tom Plummer, 2014
"Never move an old tree." Dutch saying.
"I am universally offensive." Dede Plummer, 2014
"I don't want to see any movie with the word 'guys" in the title." Tom Plummer, 2013.
"Please bless Grandma. And Grandpa. That they can have a nice time. In their apartment." Louis Plummer, age 4.
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” George Saunders
"Hello, my name is Tom, and I'll be your spouse this evening." Tom Plummer, 2012
Me: " Jesus knows EVERYTHING." Hank (10), "Yeah? How many fingers am I holding up?"
"In my end is my beginning." T.S. Eliot
"Nothing has prepared her for the wide, grey simplicity of sadness and for the knowledge that this is what the rest of her life will be like." Carol Shields
"My life has been a fog, but the only light, the only clarity-- has come from the simplicity of putting permanent ink on paper." Rian Plummer, age 17.
"When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction." Steven Wright
"Does anybody need to go poopies?" Louis Plummer, age 3
"I grew up in the wide and spacious building." Charles Plummer, 2011
"Pride is a such a useless handicap." Christina Putney
"You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't retire; retread your tires." Lucy Jarvis
"Grandma is never boring." Mira Plummer, age 8
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want." Iyanla Vanzant
"Being in your body is a good place to be." Beatrix Ost
"I'm the world's oldest teenager." Iris Apfel, age 89