Sunday, December 4, 2011

Grandpa & Mom


I've been thinking more and more about continuing the documentary about my Mom taking care of my Grandpa and their relationship. For starters, they've lived very different lives and I think they are both fascinating. My Mom has a troubled past and has been through nightmares that most people would never be able to deal with. She has recently turned her life around and has a more positive outlook and this has made her a great caregiver. She's had 6 kids and comes from a very large, wild Mexican and Native American family. My Grandpa is the most traveled person I know and has held several prestigious jobs in his life, including being a weather forecaster at the Panama Canal during World War II for the military, which helped to plan attacks and travel for soldiers, he was a diplomatic courier during the Cold War delivering secret messages from the US Government to Russia, he lived in South Africa working for the US Embassy, and was some typed of criminal investigator in Milwaukee inspecting dead bodies. He has traveled to almost every country in the world and was married 3 times. He now has severe Alzheimers and Dementia. The other day he asked my Mom if he could eat my sister and after she said no, asked if he could eat her pet rat. I would like to somehow mesh and compare these stories. Shots that I would like to get are of them two taking their short walks outside the house, the objects inside his bedroom, outside shots of the house. My family still owns the house where my Grandpa lived for 40 years and while the inside is mostly just full of boxes now, I would like to at least get some shots of the outside. I would also like to shoot a lot of the pictures he has of him from his travels and the objects he's collected along the way, especially the ones he's given to me.

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