Today’s prompt. The telephone. Yep, the telephone. Is that what I did? Nope. Is that what I planned to do? Yep. I was trying hard to find a photo of me and a telephone. It didn’t happen.
I’ve got 1000’s of slides from my childhood that are sitting in a box in my family room. My dad marked a few of the boxes. I swore there was a photo of me on the phone… I spent 3 hours looking for it, while I wrote descriptions on the slide boxes. I never found the photo.
What I did find was this one, with me behind the camera. It brought on a FLOOD of feelings about my dad. That camera was stolen when I was young, and he replaced it with a different camera. A few years back, he gave me the exact replacement of this camera. I thought it was crazy, as I had no memory of it.
It wasn’t until today, looking at 100’s of slides of me (and not nearly as many of my sister), that I realized what that camera meant to my dad, and our relationship. I cried a lot tonight.
Thanks, to a prompt that I didn’t even do. :) I guess this is what LOAD is all about.
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