Kindling
Life Positive|May 2017

Mamlu Chatterjee reflects on all the gifts from her son that have lit up her life.

Mamlu Chatterjee
Kindling

Kindling: A Noun ~ Small things used to light fires.

The first one I remember is a necklace, made with paper loops in different colours, painstakingly joined together to be long enough to go around my neck. Made in craft class and carried home carefully in both hands. And the look of sheer joy on his five-year-old face when I stepped out wearing it.

Perhaps the most memorable gift he ever gave me was a reddish maroon salwar kurta suit that still has pride of place in my cupboard, even though I don't wear it anymore. He was about nine years old then. He found me crying over a favourite reddish outfit that had disappeared – no, he didn't sympathise or wipe my tears or anything. He asked me why I was crying and listened carefully to what I said. Then he walked away. That evening his father came home carrying a new outfit for me – and it made me weep.

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