DAMA DI NOCHI

“Dama di Nochi" - by my grandfather, Benjamin Gomes Casseres - photo taken in Curacao, nineteen forties, early fifties.

I always loved this photo by my maternal grandfather, and when we moved to a new house in the suburbs, some five years after his death - in fact it was Mammie's inheritance that allowed us to buy that house - I was delighted to see that in the planter in front of our porch, grew this tall cactus that bloomed, magically, only at night. It was as if my grandfather was smiling.