Tove Jansson, 1954. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
My grandmother will be ninety-six this September. Lately she has taken to expressing herself with an almost childlike wonder, finishing television shows or simple meals or songs on the radio with jaw-dropping admiration, claiming them the best she has seen or eaten or heard in all her days. Thinking about this sometimes apt and more often comical appreciation for life’s otherwise ordinary details puts me in mind of another fanciful grandmother and her adventures around a small Finnish island on the heels of her six-year-old granddaughter, the spritely Sophia, in Tove Jansson’s
Saint-Denis-d Anjou Une déambulation mensuelle pour découvrir le patrimoine
ouest-france.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ouest-france.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Agen La maison du Sénéchal est aussi méconnue qu emblématique
ladepeche.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ladepeche.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.