GRANDFATHER

[Myra]

Grandfather
Navajo Spaceships, Star Mountain and Life
by Tishroo

I'll visit you in another dream. . . . I search for you on the other side. . . .where the river runs wide and clear. These are the words of Bruce Springsteen on his album The Rising. It reminds me of a story my mother told me. When she was a social worker, this old woman came to her office, for nothing really, since there is really no one who can help. She told my mother of when she was a child, going to school in Tuba City. Her mother was sick. . . in the hospital. She had given birth to a baby boy. Every day before and after school the little girl went to visit her mother in the hospital. She played with the baby, carried him around, and sang to him. One day when she went there, her mother's bed was empty, she was gone. Shipped off to Ft. Defiance. . . for better care. Her mother died sometime later in Fort. The little girl grew to a woman, never seeing that baby brother of her's again. Now, in the faces of old men, in their 60's she looks for herself, her baby brother. I think she will see him again on the other side. . where the river runs wide and clear. . . . and I wait for Paradise