Sometimes I like imagining myself at 80. What I would look like, where I would be living and what kind of grandmother I will be (assuming I will be a grandmother).
My description of Grandma Waterstar:
I would like to live in a funny little, homemade house in the woods with a few private acres. I would like the house to have a nice big front porch and a round tower room for my library and study. I would like to have a stain glass window on the front door of a sunburst. The main part of the house would be the Great Room. It would have a big stone hearth and rectangular table with benches on either side.
I would have a garden and a tire swing. I would also like to have an outdoor shower attached to a giant oak tree, so that grandkids could clean up before entering the house after playing in the mud.
Grandma Waterstar would always have home made cookies. My kitchen would smell of drying herbs and homemade bread. I would like to have sunday brunch at my house once a month. Friends and family would come over for pancakes and scrambled eggs. I would have my own chickens.
I would like to be slightly plump when I am eighty, my features rounded and soft. I also would like to have two long white braids and smiling crows feet wrinkles around my eyes.
I would like to have one of those old card catalog cabnets. Remember those from the library? How you used to look up books before computers. Inside each of the draws would be a collection of objects, like the S drawer would have a shell, a sparrows feather, and a spoon. If one of the kids went to a drawer and brought out an object, I would have a story that would go with that object.
what would you want to be doing at eighty?
