en route; 
"My sister, Greta, and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying. This was after I understood that I wasn’t going to grow up and move into his apartment and live there with him for the rest of my life. After I stopped believing that the AIDS thing was all some kind of big mistake. When he first asked, my mother said no. She said there was something macabre about it. When she thought of the two of us sitting in Finn’s apartment with its huge windows and the scent of lavender and orange, when she thought of him looking at us like it might be the last time he would see us, she couldn’t bear it. And, she said, it was a long drive from northern Westchester all the way into Manhattan. She crossed her arms over her chest, looked right into Finn’s bird-blue eyes, and told him it was just hard to find the time these days."
- Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell The Wolves I'm Home
so far, this has been one amazing book.
but it remains uncompleted thanks to a dead kindle. i really need to call amazon.
on a separate note, i had another completely wonderful weekend packed with family dinners, random impromptu meet ups with the usual gang, after church lunch with my girls &the dictator at iluma aka the new bugis+! (:
have a great week people! (: 