Grandma

1. chicka-dee-dee-dee
2. a golden locket that just fills the palm of my hand
3. long slender feet
4. the art of stillness
5. six sons
6. sour cream lemon pie
7. drawing the cat's pawprint on the upstairs bathroom rug
8. the cracked mirror
9. L'Air du Temps
10. filling a tin cup with wildflowers first thing
11. blue
12. cyclops cookies
13. never a raised voice, only quiet exclamations of "Neil!"
14. pressed leaves
15. a hat box on my birthday
16. a shared appreciation for pretty things
17. being taught to embroider
18. Christmas Eve
19. the upstairs bedroom
20. potato salad on July nights
21. Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit
22. amazing willpower
23. Sunday
24. rag dolls
25. the gift of a hummingbird's trust

Please stay...we need you...oh, how we need you.