November 7th, 2007
Old Grandpa Paddington
It’s officially Autumn, and in LA it’s gloomy and cold (60 degrees), and overnight I went from riding my bike everywhere and wanting to hike every day to having one desire in life: to sit in the house in sweatpants eating carbohydrates. Why, as a human, and in Southern California, do I instinctively want to hibernate? Were my ancestors bears? Maybe this is why when I asked my grandmother where her side of the family had originated she said she didn’t know. And here I took my family’s ignorance of our heritage to mean we’d been in America for hundreds of years; I never once considered my great-great-great grandfather may have caught fish with his hands and gotten his head stuck in beehives. Well, you learn something new every day.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
i think my great great great grandfather was the same! maybe we’re related!
November 11th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Wan, we are obviously long-lost sisters! This is so clear to me now.