Friday, August 7, 2009

Recovered Bean


I thought I'd give an update on Delaney's status as a lot of people have been asking after her recently. The picture attached really says it all about her mental state. Completely unaffected and the whole thing is forgotten. Physically, she has a little raised scar under her eye and a little indented scar above same eye, for polarity. The puncture wound on her left cheek is indented and now everyone thinks it's a dimple. Not too bad for a dog bite. I suppose some of these will leave behind remnants but I am slathering them with Vitamin E so maybe it will be hardly noticeable by the time she's a teenager and these things start to matter. I am trying to limit the things she can hate me for from the get-go, but obviously, I'm not off to a great start.

And as far as I go, I still catch a potted plant's tendrils wave in the breeze or a shadow move with the shifting light and for a split second I think "Gordon". It's a fragment of a forget. I know he's gone, but his presence was so strong and so constant, that it's a real adjustment to sweep the crumbs off the floor and not wait for him to come hoover them up. Justin and I both have noted that while we miss him, Delaney's growing personality has begun to fill in the gaps right down to the fact that she palm-slaps her way over to us if we have a plate of food. She has even begun to look up expectantly. Maybe we'll work on the crumbs soon...