Keb would never forget how Gracie turned to the wall and trembled, how he felt nailed to the chair, thinking: we build a perfect picture of what we want our children to be. And when that picture falls and shatters, what do we do? His sister Dot once told him: we get on our hands and knees and put the pieces back together, and call it parenting.Kim Heacox
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When Keb and Gracie got home from school, Dot would usually be waiting in the living room, reading a magazine and sipping coffee. She would greet the kids with a warm kiss and hug and ask them how their day had been. Then she would call out: “Where’s your father?” “He’s upstairs in his office,” Keb would say. “Come help me with something in my room.” After they had finished working on some project together, he would take Gracie into the kitchen, pour her a glass of milk and say: “Your mom and I have gone upstairs for a while.
Would you like to come along?” Gracie would nod and follow him up the stairs. And when they reached his office, he would say: “Now we need to get your dad down here so we can all go home together. Want to help me do that?” Keb remembered all of this from when he was four or five years old.
And though his sister had been dead for almost twenty-five years, it was still what he thought about when he pictured his parents together after she died.
Source: Jimmy Bluefeather
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