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Monologue Mania Day # 1424 Palimpsest (for Caregivers Anonymous) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Jan. 7, 2018
For other monologues from Caregivers Anonymous, please see below for days and links
For other monologues from Caregivers Anonymous, please see below for days and links
Palimpsest
(for Caregivers Anonymous)
©Janet S. Tiger
all rights reserved 2015
all rights reserved 2015
(The well-dressed woman comes up to the wheelchair and does not sit in it. Instead, she touches the wheels and then spins it around)
I look at this chair and I think of something so strange, I am almost embarrassed to mention it. I don't know if any of you remember that in my days before caregiving, I was a researcher, at the natural history museum, and I was in charge of all new acquisitions. (sighs) I enjoyed that......(Remembering) Sometimes we got in what is known as a....always loved this word!....a palimpsest.
Now that's just a fancy word for a piece of parchment where the writing has been scraped away so something new can be written on it. I actually was fascinated by these...palimpsests......because they were mysteries. What was beneath? Could it still be seen? By the new scientific methods, a lot can be revealed.....my favorites were the brass pages.....scraped clean....so that they could be re-engraved...
(She runs her hand over the wheelchair)
Sometimes I wonder about what is being left behind by my husband and me on our walks....now with him in his wheelchair.....the Huntington's is advanced now, Brian can't speak anymore, but he likes walks. And each one leaves scratches on the wheels. The wheels, the rubber, the spokes.....dust hits and makes its mark....we roll over a stone and it bounces up and dings the metal......
And I wonder if this wheelchair could be scraped down, and if, once scraped down, someone, in a thousand years, could determine that I walked with him in it......and where we went.
Even though I had to retire.- because I was so interested, I've kept studying, and I found that the lovely word palimpsest had other definitions.......
(She takes out a paper and reads from it)
'In planetary astronomy, ancient craters on icy moons whose relief has mostly disappeared, leaving behind only a trace of a rim....are also known as....my favorite word! .....palimpsests!.....or ghost craters.....'
(Sad) Well, my relief has mostly disappeared, leaving behind only a trace......a.ghost crater.....Brian is a ghost of what he was.....and I......crate him around.......
(The others laugh and applaud as she sits. End of scene)
I look at this chair and I think of something so strange, I am almost embarrassed to mention it. I don't know if any of you remember that in my days before caregiving, I was a researcher, at the natural history museum, and I was in charge of all new acquisitions. (sighs) I enjoyed that......(Remembering) Sometimes we got in what is known as a....always loved this word!....a palimpsest.
Now that's just a fancy word for a piece of parchment where the writing has been scraped away so something new can be written on it. I actually was fascinated by these...palimpsests......because they were mysteries. What was beneath? Could it still be seen? By the new scientific methods, a lot can be revealed.....my favorites were the brass pages.....scraped clean....so that they could be re-engraved...
(She runs her hand over the wheelchair)
Sometimes I wonder about what is being left behind by my husband and me on our walks....now with him in his wheelchair.....the Huntington's is advanced now, Brian can't speak anymore, but he likes walks. And each one leaves scratches on the wheels. The wheels, the rubber, the spokes.....dust hits and makes its mark....we roll over a stone and it bounces up and dings the metal......
And I wonder if this wheelchair could be scraped down, and if, once scraped down, someone, in a thousand years, could determine that I walked with him in it......and where we went.
Even though I had to retire.- because I was so interested, I've kept studying, and I found that the lovely word palimpsest had other definitions.......
(She takes out a paper and reads from it)
'In planetary astronomy, ancient craters on icy moons whose relief has mostly disappeared, leaving behind only a trace of a rim....are also known as....my favorite word! .....palimpsests!.....or ghost craters.....'
(Sad) Well, my relief has mostly disappeared, leaving behind only a trace......a.ghost crater.....Brian is a ghost of what he was.....and I......crate him around.......
(The others laugh and applaud as she sits. End of scene)
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First posted Day # 666 Palimpsest by Janet S. Tiger Dec. 9, 2015
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For other Days with Caregivers monologues-
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For other Days with Caregivers monologues-
Day # 268
Wheelchair of Fortune Open Act 1
569 Thin Ice Dilemma
666 - Palimpsest
692 - Resilience
702 - Someone Else
714 New Inventions
777 New Journals
778 The Caped Wonder
782 - Duo
783 Day in the Life of a Caregiver
797 Gold Medal
802 Misplaced
812 Paid
820 The Fallen
1422 What About Me?
1423 - The Chart of Secrets
899 - When Does the Day Begin (revised)
1179 - Not Gonna Be Me (group Caregivers)
1181 - How Caregiving Helped Create Silicon Valley (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1183 - Not Going Back (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1184 - The Caregivers Dance (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1185 - Easy Peesy! (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1186 - How Caregiving Helped Create Silicon Valley (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1181 - How Caregiving Helped Create Silicon Valley (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1183 - Not Going Back (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1184 - The Caregivers Dance (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1185 - Easy Peesy! (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1186 - How Caregiving Helped Create Silicon Valley (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1189 - More (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1192 - Danger Zone (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1194 - Misst (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1195 - Rules of Engagement
1196 - Carving It Out (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1192 - Danger Zone (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1194 - Misst (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1195 - Rules of Engagement
1196 - Carving It Out (for Caregivers Anonymous)
1205 LOUD!
1270 Forgetful
1295 Fireworks
1297 Labor Day
1363 What We Remember
1422 What About Me?
1423 - The Chart of Secrets
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315 CaregiversAnon.org
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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