She didn’t teach me how to be strong in the face of suffering; she taught me how to live honestly with it
Auntie I. The “I” stood for Inger, but to us, it was shorthand for so much more – intuition, imagination, invincibility. Well, not entirely invincible, as it turned out. She was the aunt with the sharpest mind, the knowing smile and hands that could once coax music from a piano and life from a canvas. She was a teacher for 35 years – kindergarteners who would later remember her as the one who showed them how to hold crayons, dreams and dignity.
Yet her sharp, dry humour cut through the bleakness, like a survival instinct. This wasn’t a woman looking for pity. She was too proud for that. If there was pain, she’d meet it head-on, turning it into something to mock, something to control. There was a toughness about her that I admired and still do. For so long, it was hard not to feel useless, watching from the sidelines as she struggled with even the smallest tasks. I’d try to help, but Auntie I wasn’t having it.
“Your dreams are revealing you,” she’d say, half-seriously, as I told her about some recurring nightmare. “You HAVE to work on consciously resolving that, you twit!” Auntie I didn’t just teach kids how to read or express themselves more fully. She was teaching all of us how to live, how to navigate a world where joy and suffering exist side by side.
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