Port Arthur, TX: 1931-1934
A devilishly handsome man from Pittsburgh and a beauty beyond words Galveston flapper fall in love, and give you life.
Houston, TX: 1934-1940
Hold tight to the giants who love you, this shiny new world is all running and play with eyes wide open, ...make your first new best friends.
Pittsburgh, PA: 1940-1949
The teenager that laughs and cries, loving her baby brother, watching the world at war from a spoiling little red convertible. Everything is yet to come...make new best friends.
Cleveland, OH: 1949-1951
Art school, beatniks, cigarettes, rebellion ...make new best friends.
Houston, TX: 1951-1953
Wooed into marriage by a war hero in a matter of days.
Amarillo, TX: 1953-1959
Live the newlywed life of cocktail parties and diapers, join the club with your baby boomer son …make new best friends.
Houston, TX: 1959-1961
Move again, it’s the post war economy, the Flying Red Horse gallops, your daughter is born, but cracks begin.
Seabrook, TX: 1961-1964
Watch astronauts clear the land with axe and grit. Make your kid’s first halloween costumes, send them on their first school bus, your marriage will fail, but true love is just a stone throw away. Draw elegant women in the latest fashion...make new best friends.
Corpus Christ, TX: 1964-1965
Beaches and wind, a new marriage, new life, new house, new schools, Izigha Hui Place of Many Rocks, kids off their leash, it all looks so simple & granted.
Lafayette, LA: 1965-1967
An oil field wife will move quite often.
Dickinson, TX: 1967-1969
It’s just expedient, a stepping stone, things are coming, we land on the moon.
Singapore: 1969-1977
Your place in the world changes forever, a post-colonial whirlwind, peopled with ancient traditions morphing towards the future, sounds, food, islands, temples, storied expats, timeless religious ecstasy, short hops to places never seen. Ready or not release your son into the world. You and your love are both in your prime ...make new best friends.
Paris: 1977-1979
Glorious, but unaccepting, also just a stepping stone. Release your daughter into the world, she is beyond ready ...make new best friends.
Orbicciano, Italy: 1979-1995
Co-op wine and olive oil, this magnet of art and Roman debris where the trains go on strike and your mentors wear newspaper hats. You discover marble and what hides beneath. Your love takes himself away and all your strength is needed to go on. Even in grief no place is out of bounds, down the rivers of India or digging the Skulls of Jericho from under the first sands ...make new best friends.
Austin, TX: 1995-2019
Full circle now. A family spread far and wide begins to consolidate, the mother becomes a grandmother, the grandmother becomes a great grandmother. You find new love rediscovering the country you left behind so long ago …your final stop. Our matriarch who cradled and owned all that the world presented, who outlived all her …new best friends… moves on. Loved beyond words by all she touched.
