Westie to Eastie Goosebumps and vice versa
Perspective is a funny thing.
Today I visited my childhood town. I revisited time,place and memory. I passed the old hairdressing school that was on my go straight to school and come straight home route.
The staircase brick-red different from every perspective. It’s shape from the sidewalk a triangle. from the top it’s view a kind of pyramid.
At 7am,the hair school was closed. My school open. I walk in my jumper plaid maroon. When no one was looking I detoured from my familiar sidewalk cracked.
I climbed up the staircase red-brick steps 8, remained on the landing for a moment looked all around, then descended on the other side of staircase red-brick steps 8.
From others perspective it was for no seemingly outward reason,
At 3pm, a sea of plaid maroon spills out the double doors, blood-like, the dismissal bell signals me that is time to return home.
I do everything in reverse ,I climb up the staircase brick red steps times 8.
I stand on the landing plaid maroon style, ignoring goosebumps that don’t end at Bobby socks
A place to land between worlds before descending staircase brick red steps 8 .
then descend on the other side of staircase red-brick steps 8
At 7am , I leave deaf world for hearing.
At 3pm, I leave hearing world for deaf.
between stairs that go up and down and entrances 2
that landing was my place just for a second
Coda
I just returned from a book promotion tour which culminated at a stop in Austin,Texas for https://www.coda-international.org
I cannot begin to tell you what a wonderful organization this is that includes such an array of gifted, big-deaf-hearted Coda! ILY!
Plaid is a unique book, Painstakingly written in large artistic style that defies categorization. It is first and foremost a startling and riveting memoir written by a hearing child of deaf parents. A story that introduces the reader to the deaf world and to the differences between the deaf world and hearing world, illustrated through Pia’s life experiences. It demonstrates how each culture views the other and how perceptions on both sides influence interaction and outcome. After enduring years of neglect, control, and abuse, Pia emerges a triumphant woman, her unbroken spirit a testament to her intelligence, imagination, and survival instincts. It offers an inside view of how children are groomed for abuse ,why they suffer in silence, how families, neighbors, medical professionals, teachers, clergy, and the justice system fail to protect children, and how societal avoidance and inaction end up sanctioning child abuse, particularly within families. Plaid is a moving plea for collective growth and change, and an inspiring story of an exceptionally tenacious and resilient child every reader will want others to know.
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