The Doll House

Tales of Maria Series : II

 

 

 

 

At her plastic table, on her plastic chair, Maria took the toy house and placed it in the middle of the table. It was all she knew of the world. Then she took a toy wolf and horse and put it beside the house. She didn't have an eagle, so she drew a eagle head on a paper and put that beside the wolf.

 

It occured to her that she was designing her life based on her brother's concerns and issues. But she didn't have any herself.

 

She would then listen to him speak of the matters he encountered on a daily basis. At dinner, in the TV room or when they were out at the mall, she made notes of all the matters that occupied his attention.

 

As a family, they all seemed to be tied to father's concerns anyway. Whether he got along at work, whether he was getting promoted or what he thought of the government. Her mother seemed to be subscribing to that.

 

Her father and mother were at one end of the spectrum while she and her brother were at another, in a global and universal experience in her young life. Where they may have met in the middle, they formed an experience of the trinity in her faith of issues. What they said, did and thought were to Maria the building blocks of a vision of life that simply and plainly unfolded as the only truth she knew.

 

At Sunday school, when Mr. Graham spoke of the Holy Trinity, it appeared to Maria she was the fourth, but as the witness of the events. God she thought might be like her father, but she hoped god was tolerant, because her father was not.

 

She looked around for something to represent her. Then she reached for her glass bead necklace, brought it over her head and placed it in a circle near the horse. It had nine beads in it and reminded her of the poster of the solar system that her brother had on the wall.