2/10/2024 0 Comments League of lust chapter 11![]() When Granny June hugs me, I rest my chin atop her head. “Mom, I need to be with Lily and Granny June. ![]() I know she will gently suggest I stay home. “Thanks, but I need a quick shower before I go sit with Granny June at the funeral home.Ĭan you drop me off on your way to EverCare?” Some of us would love to have a mom who puts their kid first. Whenever I’d complain about Mom smothering me with her unending questions and hovering, Lily would say, Cut her some slack. She will skip visiting GrandMary to stay by my side. If I say yes, Mom will set the kettle down and take care of me. “Want me to run a bath?” she asks gently. When I go back inside, my mother is pouring hot water into a dainty teacup. Which one will help with this unfathomable anguish? Release it to the poplar where I always begin my day.Īfter my introduction, I inventory the Seven Grandfathers-love, respect, honesty, humility, bravery, wisdom, and truth. I hold the semaa in the palm of my left hand, the one closest to my heart. I felt that same medicine yesterday, sitting in the bleachers. The bumps and dents of the lawn remind me of dancing in my moccasins.ĭrumbeats reverberating from uneven ground, up my legs and into my heart. My bare feet touch cold concrete steps and then grass slick with dew. I reach inside for a pinch of loose-leaf tobacco. Gramma Pearl’s birchbark basket in the shape of a blueberry.Ī pine cone hangs from each point of its flared crown. I close the medicine cabinet and go to the table next to the front door. Today, Lily’s first day, she will mourn her family. ![]() It isn’t part of Auntie’s job as Tribal Health director, but I know she will assist Seeney. My hand stops short of the orange prescription vial.īy now, Auntie and Seeney Nimkee will have washed her body with cedar water.Įven if Seeney didn’t work for the Traditional Medicine Program, Granny June would have asked her to prepare Lily for the four-day journey to the next world. I know the pills are in the medicine cabinet. I get out of bed, still dressed in a ratty T-shirt and cutoffs, and head to my mom’s bathroom. The memory is painful every part of my body hurts. I see it all again: my best friend falling onto her back. It’s when you stop shivering that you’re in trouble. How no vision had come to me, but that every muscle in my body spasmed the entire time.Ĭold and shivering is fine, Daunis. I had to wait a month, until the next moon had passed, before I could tell Auntie about my experience. I have a faint memory of shaking like this during my coming-of-age fast at fourteen on Sugar Island.įor two nights and two days during a cold and rainy October, I shivered beneath a wool blanket and a tarp on a boulder in the woods. Helps me into bed as I begin to shiver and my teeth chatter. My mother hands me a pill and a glass of water.
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