Before & After: A Tribute to Family
Blogger Olaniyi “Ola” Swarn sat watching This is Us in her home near Chicago, IL, the same area her grandmother had moved to in the 1950s in hopes of starting a new life far from the racism of the South. The episode was titled “A Father’s Advice,” and Ola was immediately reminded of some of the […]
Blogger Olaniyi “Ola” Swarn sat watching This is Us in her home near Chicago, IL, the same area her grandmother had moved to in the 1950s in hopes of starting a new life far from the racism of the South. The episode was titled “A Father’s Advice,” and Ola was immediately reminded of some of the final moments she’d shared with the matriarch of her family some nine years prior: “My grandmother had been diagnosed with Alzheimer?s, and during her later years we would spend nights at each other’s homes,” Ola says. “While staying in one of the guest rooms of her home I noticed a small dresser filled with letters in chronological order. When I saw that these were letters from my great grandfather there was no way I was putting them back in that drawer without reading them! I sat there in the wee hours of the morning, and I read them. Every. Last. One.”
What she uncovered in the collection painted a portrait of a woman much more complex than the “modest and practical” grandmother Ola had grown up with. In one particular set of notes she wrote about her move to Chicago and t...
Blogger Olaniyi “Ola” Swarn sat watching This is Us in her home near Chicago, IL, the same area her grandmother had moved to in the 1950s in hopes of starting a new life far from the racism of the South. The episode was titled “A Father’s Advice,” and Ola was immediately reminded of some of the final moments she’d shared with the matriarch of her family some nine years prior: “My grandmother had been diagnosed with Alzheimer?s, and during her later years we would spend nights at each other’s homes,” Ola says. “While staying in one of the guest rooms of her home I noticed a small dresser filled with letters in chronological order. When I saw that these were letters from my great grandfather there was no way I was putting them back in that drawer without reading them! I sat there in the wee hours of the morning, and I read them. Every. Last. One.”
What she uncovered in the collection painted a portrait of a woman much more complex than the “modest and practical” grandmother Ola had grown up with. In one particular set of notes she wrote about her move to Chicago and t...
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