Archive for April, 2007
Interlude (notes)
[flowering trees a substitute for mountains: flowering almond in Jerusalem – in winter, flowering almond along Locust walk in the peculiar winter of 2006. Flowering apricot in Salt Lake City, flowering apricot all up Locust walk in my neighborhood, and around CVS.—at significant times, Pesach getting out of Holy Cross, and return of spring/pesach in […]
Without Mountains
Like Heidi in the city, for the next four months after the accident, I was without mountains. Unlike Heidi, I did not sleepwalk to go looking for them.
Intensive Care
Once I had waked from my comatose state, I started to object to the care I received at LDS Hospital, object angrily, in fact. I did not […]Dialog problem notes - MS word file
Getting It Together (smoothing it out)- Section 4
There is a picture I can see in my mind. I am in a wheelchair, and two men are walking with me. Well, one is pushing my chair, and the other is walking. We are viewing panels from the AIDS quilt, a memorial to the victims of the disease in those first years, when survival […]
Smoothing Out - Section 4
If the period after The Accident was “In the Rough,” I can term the next period one of smoothing out. It meant gathering together what I had been able to accomplish, learning more about the difficulties ahead, and particularly solving the practical problems of living alone, except for one cat, and the occasional daughter.
In the […]Filling in the Background - Section 3
April 3rd, 2007
Filling in the Background - Section 3
by Sigrid Peterson in Unedited material, Sectional work
What was my world like, the day that driver failed to clear her windshield on a wintry day, and ploughed right into me?
What comes first? Surroundings? Social Status? Religion — after all, I lived in Salt Lake City, even though […]