It’s not always easy to have your way of thinking challenged by someone else’s life experience.
Here is Gertie!, outrageous because she speaks the unspeakable. And she’s good with it.
Years ago I sent a written copy to my niece who had just given birth, to celebrate the realization of her connection to everyone – as a mother at the birth of her child. My brother intercepted the monologue. He told me never to send my ‘art’ to him again. It was a thin time in our relationship, when I almost hated him. After all, I’d sent it to his 19-year old daughter. What was he doing in that conversation, judging me because of this character I had written?
Gertie! is not for everyone.
Listen at your own risk. You may choose to be offended. You may laugh.
Gertie is a woman in a wheelchair keenly observing the details of what it means to be human.
Sound design &
Gif/ Illustrations by Gord Halloran http://www.gordonhalloran.com
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