writing doodle - what are you doing?

"Aunt Vicky, what's in the basket?" eight year-old Maura asked.

"Mending."  The woman fished around for a piece of tattered cloth and held it up for inspection.  "Doesn't  your mother remember how to mend?"

Everything in Betsy's Walter's life was disposable: cleaning rags, clothing, furniture, jobs, men.  Even her daughter Maura was somehow on the disposable list, it is how the little girl came to stay the summer in a sleepy town with a woman who had never had children.

Vicky Masterson was raised by a mother who survived the Great Depression.  Everything was saved and used up as much as possible: boxes, bottles, tools.  Not that Vicky had a belief if she didn't do these things she would be poor.  On the contrary, these things made it possible for her to do the things she loved.

"Show me, please."

Vicky realized she would have a great deal to show and teach the child in nine weeks.  Hopefully it would be enough to last a lifetime.  She was grateful for the opportunity.