The Book Sellers Friend
I have returned to this picture again and again. What are these two people talking about? What are they feeling? What are their histories?
posted by editorjackie @ 1:20 PM
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My fathers give me his take on this. Mind you he has "never blogged in his life". (This is transcribed from an msging conversation. )
Both of them lost their mates a while back. Her husband has been dead for a couple of years. His almost a year. He was a friend of her husbands but did not know her real well. He lives a few blocks away and is totally retired. He is lonely as is she. However, she is substantially healed over her loss but he is not. She is yearning for more relationship from him but not he. She has to eek out an existence with the help of selling used books and magazines on the street. He is not a reader nor as educated as she is. Yet he finds some comfort and encouragement from engaging in conversation with her.
She is looking fondly yet with a certain perplexity at his face in the hopes of seeing more interest from him in her but has not seen that yet. She is not pursuing, nor is she showing much that she might be 'available'. It is all just beginning in her heart and he has not yet discovered her feelings at all. She talks somewhat easily about her loss but he does not. the nearly far away look in his eyes as he looks away from her shows he is not comfortable with his loss and still feels his wounds. Folded arms are not body language against her...because he is basically unaware of her feelings but they indicate he is trying to protect himself from the memory of his loss. He also feels somewhat reluctant to talk of her husband.
She is stronger emotionally than he is. And her education makes him chose his words more carefully. She does not care about his background but yearns for someone to talk to about almost anything. She wishes he would come by everyday but he doesn't, not because he does not want to but because he is bearing some sickness himself. He is learning to live alone and has not yet found that he can do that with much peace in his heart. She has learned to be alone but finds a lot of joy in conversation with him.
Not yet in his consciousness is an embronic thought that he might be somewhat betraying his wife by too much talking with this lady. He has not yet thought of that but it is fermenting undetected just below the surface...and yet is still affecting his openess toward her. (what do you think?)
Maybe not...on second thought That's probably enough from me about the book sellers. I'm 'stretching'; where before my thoughts came swiftly without much forethought. That is the best kind, I think, when you're trying to discover who they are and what they're thinking.
Your 'people' need to know there are no right or wrong answers...that allows them to be free to say anything they want. Just stop..long enough to look at, think about it.. I think they would also find some fun in doing what I am doing. thanks for that.
Thanks Dad!
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