This is Poppy. He lives just outside of Gander, Newfoundland. He is 80. He still builds houses, bakes and cleans, and is very competent on his laptop.
Favourtie quote: When teaching him new things about Facebook: “Stop now, you’re confusing me. Pretty soon I won’t know the Wall from the floor.”
This is my grandma. She is 84 years old and she has alzheimers. When I showed her the photographs she said: “who is that old woman?”
He was wandering around Recoleta near the cemetary with an old-fashioned (like 1920s old) camera selling potraits. He asked if he could take our picture and then we asked if we could take his.
This woman is everything every grandma should strive to be.
We had a full conversation with him; he doesn’t speak English and we don’t speak Spanish.
