First descent: puppet shows, Jim's books and flamenco silks

   So, I set the timer for about 1 1/2 hours and go down the steps. There is the jumble and overwhelming chaos of it all. It would be easier to run back up the stairs. But I persevere. My task I decide is to take my dad's many books off the shelves and put the boxes of puppet shows back on the shelves.

    I would rather run back upstairs but I stay. I start moving the books, ....the books, all the books he loved so dearly....poetry, film criticism.....essays, Auden, Yeats and more. It really is like handling the richness of his mind. Each book stuffed with papers and written over on the inside and back cover. Each book bulges with his commentary and deep thoughts.

    I clear off the sturdy table and put the boxes on there. I fill the boxes carefully. Who would ever know whats in each box. I am not anal enough to label them all, just make this order, for this time.

   The shelves clear. 

THE PUPPET SHOWS in Boxes.

     I can hear the laughter, I can see the fast quick drawings, the pieces on sticks. Oh a puppet show and stage for a long ago admininstrator. Oh, the puppet show that I brought to my Jewish Conversion,..hahaha the Quik and easy way to becoming Jewish!! Oh,..what was I thinking...the puppet show called " The Inner Life of My Mid Forties" and therein I find the TREASURES. Amid the watercolors and sticks are 4 small silk paintings I had forgotten about!

    3 flamenco images and one of a fountain. I bring them upstairs and up one floor to my hoard of silk fabric!!! and within a few days they are all magnificently Framed and put on Etsy.

www.anitawhite.etsy.com    No bites, but the pieces are done!! Framed in red fiery silk, enough to withstand Any WindChill. and they now are all on a long rod in front of the air conditioner, the one that blew in cool air all summer to keep us from sweating.

Here they are. My Basement Treasures.

Ole!! Ole!! Ole!!