Ciao nonno
My grandfather died last night. He would have been a hundred years old in five weeks. My favorite memory of him goes back to when I was about two years old and he used to take me to nursery school on his bicycle
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and pick me up in the afternoon. On the way back, in spring and summer, we would stop at a park and pick up daisies and look for four-leaf-clovers. But the best part was when we sat on a bench and he pulled a horse hair from the lining of his jacket (he always wore a jacket and a hat). In those days men’s jackets had a stiff lining in the collar and shoulders and if you fiddled a bit with the fabric you could grab the end of those thick, shiny, black hairs. Then he would tear off a tiny piece of paper from whatever was at hand, twist it around one end of the horse hair, and make me a butterfly. Recreating that memory seemed the best way to honor his passing today. If you play around with different color paper, you can have fun with two or more butterflies chasing each other. There’s not much to it, really, but to me it’s magic. Grazie, nonno. ——— Ieri è morto il mio nonno. Fra cinque settimane avrebbe compiuto cent’anni. Il mio ricordo preferito del nonno è di quando avevo circa due anni e mi portava all’asilo nido in bicicletta. Al ritorno, durante la bella stagione, ci fermavamo ai giardini pubblici a cercare quadrifogli
e raccogliere margheritine. Ma la parte migliore del pomeriggio era quando ci sedevamo su una panchina e il nonno tirava fuori un crine di cavallo dal risvolto della giacca (portava sempre la giacca e il cappello). A quei tempi le giacche da uomo avevamo un’imbottitura di crini di cavallo nel colletto e nelle spalle e con un po’ di sforzo si riusciva ad estrarre uno di quei crini neri e lucenti. Poi strappava un pezzettino di carta da quello che aveva sottomano, lo rigirava intorno al crine e mi faceva una farfallina. Ricreare quel ricordo mi è sembrato il modo migliore di onorare la sua memoria. Grazie nonno.
Posted by Francesca | 15 comments
janel
Sorry to hear this Francesca, my thoughts are with you.
Laurence
So sorry for your loss Francesca. What a beautiful and touching post you wrote.
andrea
;( mi dispiace tanto. .. very sweet memories you have of him, thanks for sharing them. a big hug coming your way..
Rosie
Oh, Francesca, I am sorry to hear about your loss but what a marvellous skill your grandfather taught you. (And now you’ve passed it on via the videos).
May
I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather’s passing. Your memories of him are lovely. Thanks for sharing your tribute.
Zita
Sincere condoglianze. Pero’, ha avuto una vita lunga.
Derya
What a beautiful tribute. So simple but so memorable.
Lydia
I’m sorry, Francesca. How sweet a memory of your grandfather and such a fitting way to remember him by.
mg
how beautiful–the butterflies and the memory.
i’m so sorry for your loss, Francesca. he sounds like a lovely sort of grandfather.
Lorette
My sympathies to you and your family. That is a very sweet memory.
carlene
Making those butterflies will always take you back to that time, and that’s priceless. I’ll bet his grandfather made them for him, too. What a precious gift to give a little girl!
xo
carlene
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So sorry about your grandfather. What nice memories you have of him. I loved the “butterflies” videos.
Annie
A sad day, but what beautiful memories you have of him.
gaby
Mi dispiace Francesca, io le nonne non le ho da molti anni, ma mi mancano ancora. Non ho mai conosciuto i miei nonni, e mimanca anche quello.
fleegle
I am so sorry, my dear. Grandparents are special, sigh.