#nonna

[friendofelphie]

[grecoromanyaoi]

btw my great grandma just said shes afraid she wont find any other italian speakers in the sky after she dies bc all the italians are down below. obsessed.

[calabria-mediterranea]

Calabria, Italy

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[biancarondine]

[thesaltofcarthage]

so I have been crocheting for maybe 18 months now, started in late 2023, and I'm learning more complex stitches and understanding how various stitches and methods create sundry effects.

and I was getting ready for bed last night and I happened to notice a doily which nonna made, which is in my room, because I grabbed it to remember her by when my sister was cleaning out the house after nonna died in 2021.

and I've been seeing doily patterns when I trawl r/crochet but it hadn't ever really clicked, you know? so I got out the magnifying glass and I took the doily under a strong light, and

and

it's crochet. it's just teeny-tiny crochet.

all this time I thought "tatting lace" or "making doilies" was some mysterious complicated thing but no, I can see the chains, I can interpret the dcs, I was just making an African flower granny hex and I can see where nonna did "24 dc into the same stitch" on this doily with the incredible thin thread and tiny hooks and I

and I

I just cried.

I'm not a great cook, I'm a terrible housekeeper, I can barely sew on a button, nonna was taken out of school in second grade and even at my best level of italian there was always a bit of a language barrier so it's not like we could discuss books or something, but here, here is something we could have shared. here is something which transcends language. it's art, it's creation, it's design. I could have showed her something and she would have gotten it, not just that she would have been proud of me, because she was always proud of me, but that she would have understood this. I could have shared this with her. we could have done this together. I could have exclaimed over her skill and maybe she could have taught me some stitches or techniques.

and she's gone. I'll never be able to share this with nonna.

I only really grieve hard over my losses once in a while but this is stabbing me right through the heart.

ti voglio tanto bene, cara nonna. I wish I could have showed you this. I wish I could have done this with you. I wish I had known.

[ed13d1]

sunday morning

[frammenti--di--cuore]

gli occhi di mia nonna che diventano lucidi raccontando di sua nonna sono la prova che l'amore non passa, non muore e non si dimentica, che il tempo piega tutto tranne i sentimenti sinceri.

zoe, grazie vita per i regali che mi fai

[swan2swan]

Wonder if she's talking to them about families...

[io-rimango]

“L’amore si fa per conoscersi” mi diceva sempre mia nonna. Quando le raccontavo delle mie frequentazioni, (al tempo ero un’adolescente). Mi ripeteva sempre di non accontentarmi mai, di non avere la pretesa di incontrare la persona giusta subito, perché prima di farlo, avrei dovuto conoscermi bene io e mi sarei conosciuta ogni volta di più attraverso chiunque avessi incontrato. Oggi, se potessi, le direi che aveva proprio ragione, che forse non possiamo davvero incontrare qualcuno “per noi”, finché non incontriamo prima noi stessi, i nostri desideri, i nostri bisogni, le nostre più intime ombre che tanto ci fanno paura e ci facciamo amicizia. Se non siamo disposti prima noi ad amarci, chi mai potrà farlo al nostro posto?

[echoedframes]

sony cybershot DSC-S730

[moony-hummingbird]

Ogni volta che mi accade qualcosa penso "glielo devo assolutamente raccontare, sicuro mi farà quella sua faccia buffa che mi piace tanto e mi rende felice". Poi mi ricordo che non ci sei, che non posso raccontarti niente.

[calabria-mediterranea]

Scilla, Calabria, Italy

Photos by @mareluna_99

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[biancarondine]

[thesandlorde]

[masteroftacos]

Nonna Gothic.

[persa-tra-i-miei-pensieri]