Work on the focus.

Suburban Chicago, 1967. I'm still learning to use the new camera; focusing isn't easy when one has bad eyesight.

Mom sits at her sewing machine. The shelves on the left store Mom's medical books. On the left are many of Dad's historical books; he rarely read fiction (that's something else he and I have in common). I see two books that influenced me: (1) Zoë Oldenbourg's The Crusades; and (2) Stanley Loomis's Paris in the Terror.