Rose from my morning walk
Daily Photo Instead of being asleep at 06:56 on 1 May 2016, kitt created this:
Open House Cupcakes
Daily Photo Posted by kitt at 15:55 on 30 April 2016
Okay, I have two people who read this site on a regular basis. One comments regularly. The other lets me know how to improve the site.
Which is to say, apparently "Daily Photo" means I should be posting, well, daily.
So, here we go. Write every day and post a picture every day. Along with the burpees every day, I'm going to need to start streamlining things to make everything easier for myself.
The Farm
Book Notes kitt decided around 18:01 on 24 April 2016 to publish this:
What? Another book recommended by Mom? Yeah.
Again, not the book I was expecting. Again, a book that surprised me.
This book deals with an older woman's difficulties moving with her husband to a new location (back to her home country), depression, interpretations, and dealing with family secrets and the past.
A son's mother comes to him in a panicked, paranoid state, with wild accusations of what had happened with her move with her husband, the son's dad. The dad follows shortly, while the mother tells the son convincingly in chronological order of the events on the farm the parents had moved to. While the mother's interpretation of events is plausible, so are the father's rebuttals of what was happening. How is a son, who is also hiding his own secrets from his parents, to choose or know which is actually true.
Okay, yeah, that's the gist of the plot. The telling, however, is remarkable. We are conditioned to believe what we read, so of course the mother is telling the son what happened. Yet, interpretation, paranoia.
I wasn't expecting to like this story as much as I did. The ending is haunting.