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Jeannie Hope Gibson

Fragmented Memories by Jeannie Hope Gibson

Fragmented Memories

June 18, 2017 By Jen Liszka

How much time has passed? There seems to be some order now, to my brain. I can actually express thoughts with some clarity. I notice I stutter some. And people correct me when I grab the wrong word out of the heap. I feel apologetic and flawed. Ashamed and alienated.

My memory is still fractured, with pieces missing, much like my old Anasazi pot. Carefully cradling it in my hands, I am struck by how similar we are. Both of us

New Life photograph by Jeannie Hope Gibson
New Life

are survivors. Someone told me I could have died that night when I experienced septic shock and the fire scalded my brain. They said I have a traumatic brain injury. PTSD. How humiliating.

Now, like my pot, I am weathered, scarred, burned, and pieces of me are missing. I guess maybe I still have the remnants of the original “me” somewhere inside. I’m not sure who that “me” was though.

I love this old pot, just the way it is now. I love it, simply because it is broken.

I wonder, will I still be loved, blackened and broken, just as I am?

Clay and Paint
9×11″
$375, framed
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