Monday, January 25, 2010

My Two-hundredth Post

I was named after a childhood friend of my mother. I've only met her a few times. This is her.



I know a few things about her. For one, she's a ballet dancer. Or was. She came to visit once when I was really young. She gave me a musical spinning ballerina figurine. It was a fragile thing to give a young child, so my mom hid it away in the back of her closet. Sometimes I used to sneak in and wind it up and look at it. I wonder what happened to it.



Also, she's deaf. She's really good at lip reading and vocalizing. I can't imagine the difficulties of being a dancer without being able to hear the music.

I was googling her today. I found out her middle name is Sue. Also, she's an artist. This is one of her... paintings? drawings? I'm not really sure.



Anyway, I think it's pretty cool.

But it's strange to me that there's this woman I'm supposed to have some sort of connection with. I don't know her at all.