A Bit of Story
Dec. 16th, 2003 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakAfter finishing up all the preliminaries with my client I felt the need to consult with a higher power. Meaning my grandmamma. She has much more magic than me, is terribly clever, and has two centuries of experience to draw upon. After all my usual methods would do me little good, no sense in looking up girlfriends and relatives like I would with a skip trace. Plus any excuse to see her is a good one.
It isn't far to her home in Elyria, a neighborhood of industrial warehouses and ageing 18th century working class houses. She settled there before the freeway, and long before I was around. Sometimes I suspect that she'll be living there after the whole city is gone, her little neat house standing by itself, an island of old Russia on the high plains. That isn't terribly realistic, after all she has moved before, but she has an air of permanence about her. She certainly didn't move when the more recent Russian community grew up in Glendale, when new factories were built, and the neighborhood became Hispanic. She says that the changes don't bother her as long as the weather is pleasant and her neighbors treat her with respect. Which they do for the most part, I've even seen a few of them coming by to consult with the wise woman.
(This is the grandson of Baba from Kiska and the Firebird)
It isn't far to her home in Elyria, a neighborhood of industrial warehouses and ageing 18th century working class houses. She settled there before the freeway, and long before I was around. Sometimes I suspect that she'll be living there after the whole city is gone, her little neat house standing by itself, an island of old Russia on the high plains. That isn't terribly realistic, after all she has moved before, but she has an air of permanence about her. She certainly didn't move when the more recent Russian community grew up in Glendale, when new factories were built, and the neighborhood became Hispanic. She says that the changes don't bother her as long as the weather is pleasant and her neighbors treat her with respect. Which they do for the most part, I've even seen a few of them coming by to consult with the wise woman.
(This is the grandson of Baba from Kiska and the Firebird)