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Jette
March 5, 2007

I'm Not Ready To Make Nice

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Grammy Award Challenge. The Dixie Chicks received the 2007 "Song of the Year" award for I'm Not Ready To Make Nice.
I made this layout for my son to help him understand some very "grown up" issues some day. Hidden journaling
"Where is your mom, mommy?" It struck you one day that you have no memory of meeting your "other" grandmother. You know and love daddy's mom and dad. You know and love grandpa, my dad. But you had never known my mother. This maybe can help explain why.
In 1965, weeks before my seventh birthday, I came home to find all of my father's things gone. The next time I saw him I was an adult that he did not recognize as his own daughter. Now in his seventies, my father is seriously declining. My mother and sisters are angry with me. How dare I not abandon him as they have. He is a fragile old soul that has buried two wives and now lives alone. I do his grocery shopping, cleaning and take him to the doctor. I make sure he has, and takes, his medications. I make sure he has phone service to call if he needs help. I take him out to dinner and drive around all his old neighborhoods so he can reminice and tell me wonderful stories of his childhood and life with my mother. My mother and sisters have issued the ultimatium, "Have nothing to do with him, or forget about us." I can not bring myself to abandon him and I resent their petty grudges. My mother has seen you one time in seven years. Her grudge is far more valuable to her than family. My sisters and mother have moved about and I no longer have an address or phone number for them. But we have kept the same for the last sixteen years. I imagine if they wanted to talk to us, we are easy enough to find. I wanted you to understand why I had no contact with my own family, when family has always been the most important thing to me. I love you always and forever, no matter what. And I will never abandon you either. Love, mom. 3/03/07.


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