Happy Belated Birthday #blogboost

The two people in the photo looked at me, as I looked at them.

Maybe it was a coincidence.  Maybe it wasn't.

Yesterday, I was watering my houseplants.   I have a table near one window sill. While watering, a picture caught my eye.  It was a picture of two people.  To be exact, it was a photo of my spouse's aunt, who died last year at the age of 107, and her younger son, who died unexpectedly in December of 2018, at the age of 72.  He lived with his parents all his life, and took care of his Mom in her old age.

The photo was taken at the birthday party when she turned 106.  Someone had thoughtfully written that on the back.  That day was proclaimed her day in Yonkers, New York, where she lived almost all her life.

And then there was another photo, just the aunt alone, and the writing on the back indicated it was taken January 25, 2019, the day she turned 107.

Yesterday would have been her 108th birthday.

Was it a coincidence that these photos were suddenly on that table yesterday?  I'd like to think so.

I used to call my spouse's aunt a "human wormhole", a link to our past, through her memories.  She was born three months before the Titanic sank.  She lived through the 1918 "Spanish flu" epidemic.  She worked in a bomb sight factory during World War II. She studied opera and had many talents I wasn't even aware of until her final years.  Spouse and I last saw her in March of last year, and dementia had taken her - yet, right before we left, she suddenly recognized me.

Now this woman, and her memories, have been gone almost a year.

Happy belated birthday in heaven to you.

Day 26 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge #blogboost.