dameunla-Mind
Mi hermano me mandó una grabación de un son como lo recuerda de nuestro padre y la entrada no coincide con la que yo toco. La escuché varias veces, convencida de que él estaba cambiando una nota, hasta que me acordé de otra fiesta donde papá la había hecho diferente también. A lo mejor estamos discutiendo por dos versiones que sí existieron. Me interesa guardar las dos, con quién la recuerda, en lugar de ponerle a una la etiqueta de correcta. Pero luego agarro el violín y mis dedos se van solos a la mía. El oído escucha una posibilidad y la mano ya tiene otra aprendida. Voy a llevar la grabadora cuando nos veamos, antes de que la discusión vuelva a ganarle a la música.
mightstillwork-Body
My son fell asleep across me on the sofa and for once I didn't try to carry him straight to bed. His head was warm against my arm and one small heel was digging into my thigh, not painfully, just very definitely there. I could feel myself getting sleepy too, that heavy feeling behind the eyes when the house is finally quiet. By the time my husband came in my arm had pins and needles and I needed help getting up. We managed the move without waking our son, then I stood in the kitchen eating a banana because apparently all that sitting had reminded me I was hungry. Not the evening walk I had planned, but quite nice.
كتاب_وبس-Body
كنت أقرأ فوق السرير والكتاب مرفوع فوق وجهي، وكلما وصلت إلى آخر الصفحة أقول سأجلس بعد التالية، إلى أن هبطت ذراعي فجأة وخبط طرف الغلاف أنفي. أختي ضحكت وأنا ضحكت رغم أن الخبطة وجعت. جلست وأسندت ظهري، فعرفت أن كتفيّ كانا مشدودين من غير ما آخد بالي، والراحة جاءت قبل أن أكمل السطر. أطراف أصابعي جافة من ورق المكتبة، وتحت إبهامي خدش صغير يعلق بحافة الصفحة. وضعت الكتاب على المخدة، لكن أختي احتاجتها فاضطررت أختار بين راحة يدي وراحة ظهرها. ظهرها كسب لأنها كانت نعسانة وأنا لسه بدري عليّ.
netthirty-Mind
My granddaughter asked which of the six tomato plants was best. I said the one by the steps because it always is, then went through the notes I keep on the back of the seed envelope and found I had written the most fruit against the far end. I had been thinking of the large tomato I picked last week, not the whole summer. Those are two different answers. She wanted the sweetest, which I had not recorded and do not intend to start grading. We cut one from each end with lunch. I could not tell them apart. She could, or said she could, and took the rest of the one I had voted against home.
窓口-Emotion
職場から帰ると、息子が学校で描いた家族の絵を見せてくれた。私だけ眼鏡が顔からはみ出していて、本人もそこを笑っていたが、三人とも口が大きく描いてあった。何をしているところか聞いたら、寿司を食べに行った日だという。皿の数でもめていた記憶ばかりだったので、本人には楽しい日として残っていたらしく、少しほっとした。妻が冷蔵庫に貼ろうとすると、息子はもっとよく見える場所がいいと言った。そんなに大事な絵だったのかと思うと嬉しくなったが、何度も褒めるのも妙で、私は貼る場所を探す係になった。寝る前にもう一度見たら、私の皿だけ少なかった。そこは事実と違う。
babeurre-Body
Bon, jambes bien revenues après le match, je l'ai senti en montant les escaliers du métro parce que j'avais envie d'accélérer au lieu de laisser les marches défiler. À la maison j'ai déroulé le tapis pour m'étirer, le gros s'est mis pile au milieu, donc j'ai fait les mollets à côté du canapé. Je sens bien la différence entre la jambe qui tire un peu au début et celle qui reste lourde, aujourd'hui ça se détendait vite. Après j'avais une faim énorme alors qu'il était même pas l'heure de dîner. Le copain voulait attendre. Je lui ai dit d'attendre lui, moi j'ai commencé par une tartine et fini le pain.
hakunamaji-Emotion
My daughter read the instructions on a school paper to me without stopping once. Long words also, not just the easy ones. I told her to read it again for her mother and she said Dad, she has already heard. Okay, but I had not! Am very happy with that girl. Sometimes I hear myself talking only about fees and uniforms, as if school is a bill they bring home. This time I wanted to sit there and hear what else she could read, but the young one kept climbing on the chair and demanding his turn with a book upside down. We laughed until their mother came to see what lesson I was teaching. A noisy one, clearly.
papergoods-Emotion
My father called to ask whether I had eaten. No receipt to check, no problem with the cab. I spent the first minute waiting for the actual request. He had stopped near a place that made the lentil soup my mother likes and was offering to bring me some. I said I had food. Then I called back and said yes. Felt foolish doing that over soup, but I was pleased when he arrived carrying the container upright in both hands. We ate together at my small table. He stayed less than an hour. After he left, I wished I had asked him to stay for tea instead of beginning to stack the bowls while he was still speaking.
doseglass-Mind
I am trying to put dates on a handful of holiday photographs without making the children's ages fit whichever year I happen to remember first. One picture seemed certain until I recognised a coat my wife bought much later. It is a useful correction, although mildly irritating to discover how confidently I had arranged the wrong sequence. The photographs are not getting more accurate through my staring at them. I have sent two to my son and left the rest in a separate envelope. There is no deadline, only my preference for a finished drawer. Some of the labels will have to say approximately, a word I can tolerate in the right place.
routefour-Emotion
The neighbour brought his boy over to collect the mower I'd fixed, and the boy wanted to know why it hadn't started. I showed him the dirty part and he stayed interested long after his dad started looking at his watch. That pleased me more than getting the engine running. After they left I kept thinking of things I should have shown him, then reminded myself he's got a whole life besides my garage. Carol says I could invite him back sometime if his folks agree. I said maybe. Truth is I'd like that, but I don't want to be the old fellow who catches a kid at the door and gives him an hour of instruction he never asked for.