Our Pandemic Year: A mother’s indomitable spirit
Photograph courtesy of Diane Kemble
Published: 3/3/2021 8:56:32 PM
Modified: 3/3/2021 8:56:29 PM
Editor’s note: In anticipation of the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic’s arrival in the Upper Valley, we asked Valley News readers to reflect on the last 12 months.
By DIANE KEMBLE
I kept hearing the word “resilient” and thought about how perfectly that word describes my mother, born in 1911. I decided to make a handmade book about her life,
My Resilient Mother.
I made paste papers in a springy pattern, a way of showing resilience as colorful and lively. I worked on the writing a little at a time and selected photographs that set up like a little display in this accordion book, one of my favorite book forms. As I was writing, I kept thinking of all of her sayings, such as “Don’t wish your life away.”