Every day she sits staring across the grounds of her retirement home, her knees covered by a patchwork quilt, whatever the weather. She might not communicate much now, but she always insists on this.
Because she spent fifteen years preparing it by building a quilt of memories, knowing that one day remembrance would be more important to her than anything else: each patch sewn, ingrained, with an element of her life, so that, eventually, she would be able to sit and simply relive her life through, a square at a time; so she would remember everything to the very end.
Because she spent fifteen years preparing it by building a quilt of memories, knowing that one day remembrance would be more important to her than anything else: each patch sewn, ingrained, with an element of her life, so that, eventually, she would be able to sit and simply relive her life through, a square at a time; so she would remember everything to the very end.
Written for the Light and Shade Challenge from the written prompt: "Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age" by Christopher Morley.
