Right Now.

-An old soothing mix of music still soothes.

-Solstice Reigns Supreme Today.

-We will hold hands together at dinner once more.

-The girl eats the yogurt, the man bustles about, I continue on.

-The husband has a broken thumb wrapped in a Christmas themed splint.

-I'm so glad I did all that food preservation months ago, will make gift giving worlds easier.

-I want to climb back into bed and stay there all day.

-Instead I'll knit and drive the 4.5 hours and talk a whole lot.

-Happy Holidays Friends!

-Here's a poem that landed in my inbox this morning:

Perhaps the World Ends Here
by Joy Harjo

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it
has been since creation, and it will go on.

We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners.
They scrape their knees under it.

It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be
human. We make men at it, we make women.

At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.

Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our
children. They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we
put ourselves back together once again at the table.

This table has been a house in the rain, an umbrella in the sun.

Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the
shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory.

We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for
burial here.

At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and
remorse. We give thanks.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing
and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.