Our guest today: Morris Greisas (my oupa)
" Welcome" in both Lithuanian and Yiddish (or so we hope!) These 550+ days of lockdown has me obsessed about a few things: One of them is Making do The other is thanking Gary Sussman a million times And lastly, to keep on looking for the spaces in between , the grey areas, the places where darkness and light might exist in the same spot. Places where the stereotype might be turned on its head. Making do : This Heritage Weekend we visited The Farm again. Yes, that one. The one our friends left behind when they emigrated to England. We keep on thinking that it is our farm , a humble farm with something like eight sheep and a small patch of mielies and a brick dam next to a decaying kraal muur . A make-do farm for a make-do travel through food club. Last time we were there, there wasn’t any hot water, and we braved the outside shower. This time we made do. We stayed dirty. We stayed dirty like our guest today stayed dirty when he fled Lithuania as a young boy.