9-25-13 6:35am Wed. (1)
Jia-Hui doesn’t like the print of the
National Art Gallery portrait of Ms Willoughby, the pink girl, and wanted to
know why she was ‘pink’ when only a sash of hers was that color. She said the
print was spooky and her father, Shih-Dong, agreed that it was ‘strange’ to put
a portrait in a bedroom (!) It’s a good thing the print wasn’t in black and
white or they’d think it was a funeral photo! No one complained when Leona and
I described the gift of a print we were going to give to Jia-Hui for her
birthday to embellish her new room, her first room of her own at seven years
old; she’s been sleeping between her parents since birth! It’s just a different
culture here. Jia-Hui did like the Hello Kitty pop-up card we got for her
months ago at the pop-up art exhibit in Taichung. I told Leona to tell Jia-Hui
to give the portrait back and we’d give her a different gift but she said her
brother already put it up on her wall. I hope she doesn’t get nightmares from
it! It was up on the wall in my old room at Mom’s apartment at 864-49 Street
for over twenty years. Mom liked it. I brought it to Taiwan thinking Jia-Hui
would like it too since it is a portrait of a cute little girl in pink. I hope
it grows on her and she gets some western class and culture out of liking it.
Her parents have a tendency to neglect their children’s inner needs. Leona and
I can help
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