Why The Grandparent Spoon Stirs Me

by Thomas J. Scheff (February 2012)

Uncle Hym is on the left, Aunt Rachel in the middle, and Grandfather Lazare on the right.
Rachel is posing as a gypsy fortuneteller.

Although I never met my grandfather and grandmother, I felt close to them growing up, closer to them then to my Uncle Hym and Aunt Rachel. Although we got letters and photographs of the family, the grandparents, in addition, must have sent my brother Len (5 years younger) and me little gifts from time to time.

Luckily, when I was 40, in group psychotherapy I learned how to cry again. In the last 40 years, I have shed many a tear over the memory of that spoon.

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