Photo credit: Ben Pelhan
The reality
Arriving in London to meet my grandbaby, I’m quarantining for 10 days. My daughter and son-in-law bring the baby to the sidewalk so we can meet through a window. Unfortunately, my window is on the top floor. (“Savta” is Hebrew for “Grandma.”)
The social
These times will be documented in history when my grandbaby and I meet with such physical distance between us! In the 1930s, my Mom from the age of 5 to 10 visited her dad from the sidewalk as he waved through a window in the TB sanatorium.
The soul
With my mom gone shortly before my grandbaby is born, she’s not here to teach me how to be a grandma. Figuring it out on my own, I chop out a square at the top of the Grandma Block. Now, I need to slide myself down the slate to the next ledge.