“My mother was old, 85, with a bad heart, and all she could really do to help was hold the baby and sing lullabies in her ancient language—which, if you think about it, is a lot. It’s almost everything.” A new Personal History by Miriam Toews.
Most of my time in Winnipeg was spent taking care of my granddaughters and also my mother, who needed help with just about everything, even showering, which was a pretty funny adventure for us both. She had a lot of friends over to the apartment and they’d play Scrabble and drink wine, laughing uproariously, then sighing about things like the brevity of life, then laughing again.
At about that time, I had taught myself how to touch-type, and while I was lying stretched out in the back seat with the hog-and-crop report droning on in the darkness, I noticed my fingers involuntarily begin to move, but not really, not my real fingers, fingers in my mind, and they were typing every word that was being said. Eventually, the fingers in my mind began to type everything that was being said around me, not just the hog-and-crop report in the car.
Oh, and also, I say to Luc, did you know that in my original language, in my mother’s mother tongue, which is an unwritten language that is dying in the world, and that was never very much alive in the first place, the only word they use for “vagina” and “uterus” and “cervix” or “vulva” or “labia,” or any of those female parts, is “,” which, I tell him, means “the mother.
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