Takaya Curlin, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/takaya-curlin/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:23:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Takaya Curlin, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/takaya-curlin/ 32 32 153713158 My Grandmother’s Hands https://www.midnightandindigo.com/my-grandmothers-hands/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:23:08 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77792 As Bill Withers plays in the background about grandma’s hands, I look down at my own. I have my grandmother’s hands. They are small with fat fingers. I once was told they looked like Vienna sausages. I simply laughed and said, “No this is all Geneva.” Geneva is my grandmother’s name. Many where I am now do not know that and I’m proud every time I choose to offer that bit of information. I wear these hands with pride. Grandmother’s hands told a story. A story of mystery and also triumph. There is so much I would have loved to

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