Day 68: A Few Pieces Still Missing

A Few Pieces Still Missing

11/28
At this point in my I was still living with my grandparents and all my spare time was pretty much spent with them. In the fall my grandmother loves to build puzzles and this was one puzzle of many we had build during the season. We would stay up late and she would talk about her life while building different puzzles at the kitchen table, it was very nice to have the these quite calm moments with her. Everyone once in awhile my grandpa would come over and put a piece or two down (always seemed to be when all the hard work was done and the puzzle was almost finished). But the funniest thing was that there was ALWAYS a piece missing from the puzzle, so we never really completed any of them! Sometimes it would be more than one, like in this puzzle two are missing. The pieces would sometimes turn up after we had already started another one, it was a running joke between me and my grandmother. On this night we had just finished a puzzle and I decided I needed to record the time spent with my grandparents. This was a difficult transitional period in my life, where I was working though a lot issues and trying to become a stronger independent person. Living with them at that time was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made. I feel really lucky to have had them all to myself for about 6 months and learn so much more about them. Definitely something I cherish very much now and will probably cherish even more later. I titled this picture "A Few Pieces Still Missing" not only because of the obvious, but because of my personal growth at the time. I was slowly building myself up and still had a few pieces missing.

And yes I know my feet are in the picture, I kept them there on purpose....for the metaphor.