"And Still... the Moon"
The flying dream was a great one. It was actually more like swimming in the sky. Keeping my arms close to my body and wiggling like a fish, a mermaid, the movements lifting me towards the stars...
A morning at my friends' hanging out with him while she took the cat to the vet (the cat is having health issues too). Again, parking is an issue in their neighborhood, so I pulled up to the building, she and the cat left in my car, and I headed into the condo. Neither he nor I are morning people, nor had we ever really spent any length of time alone together, so the plan was for us to have our coffee and tea quietly in separate rooms.
When I brought him his coffee, he was sitting in a comfortable chair in their bedroom listening to music. "Here you go. I'll just be stitching in the living room. Just let me know if you need anything- more coffee, company, whatever."
"Yeah, there's a book that I'm listening to that I want to get back to... My sister told me about it, Braiding..."
"...Sweetgrass?"
"You know it?"
"Yes, I've been hearing about it for years. I've checked it out of the library several times but haven't actually opened it. Are you liking it?"
"Have a seat!"
"Let me get my tea..."
He shared about the book, and we wove in and out of topics- connection, and community, how the last weeks have been for him, them, what might come... Two hours later, she returned, the time had flown by.
"Robin"
Coming home, I sat down to stitch, after going to the library website, checking out, and opening the audiobook of Braiding Sweetgrass. What an amazing, beautiful, spirit filling book, and listening to the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer read it with her soothing rich voice is an added gift. I'm halfway through. It's the perfect thing to listen to while stitching. I can't believe it took me this long to get to this book, but then again, sometimes things happen at just the right time in our lives. I imagine that I will listen to it again and again, each time remembering a lovely morning conversation with coffee, tea, and connection.
