family dinner

sunday, feb. 28: we sit down at a real table, to eat a real dinner. three of us are sitting in chairs -- real chairs that rise up off the ground -- and eating a real meal (beef, potatoes, veggies!), instead of grabbing whatever is quickest and plopping it down on the coffee table while the TV is on. we have a conversation and we eat and we enjoy each other's company.

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poker

saturday, feb 27: laughter and loud voices fill the air. everyone has their drink of choice, and we sit down to learn how to play poker, tournament style. we play and test and learn and bluff, and most of all, we laugh. at the end of the night, i didn't win -- i was one of the first out -- but i don't mind. it wasn't about winning. it was about the camaraderie.


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cleanin' machine

friday, feb 26: i finish the most pressing matters at work, just in time to join the office-wide cleaning party. i clean and organize and sort and recycle and look at old, old drawings and plans and posters (we find original plans for the office building for when it was a hair salon) and marvel at the fact that my boss -- a notorious packrat -- is actually throwing things away! we spend 90 minutes working together on an organizational blitz, and it feels so, so good when i finally walk out the door at 5 pm. nothing like a little spring cleaning to put a bounce in my step.

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old friends

thursday, feb 25: we are a disparate group, brought together over the years by a common employer. many of the group no longer work there and we are spread out across the country. coming back together is satisfying, fulfilling. we pass the kids around the table and chase them around the restaurant, and we laugh and smile. the joy of connection powers me through the rest of the day.

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books

wednesday, feb 24: ash picks out a black lagoon book at the library, opens it as soon as we finish scootering home, reads it through dinner and american idol and then takes it to bed. after his normal 15 minutes of reading time, i come in to turn out the light and give kisses, and i see he only has a few pages left. "go for it," i tell him. "you can stay up late to finish the book." he does about 10 minutes later, his first-ever finish in one night of an entire chapter book. he is so excited and happy. i know that feeling, i love that feeling, i can only hope he cherishes that feeling as much as i do, and grows up to love books and stories as much as me.


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drive to sonoita

tuesday, feb 23: the mountains rise gracefully from the desert foothills, reaching to the sky, snow covering their alpine tips. i drive the car up, down, around--i am flying over the road, over the hills, through the mountains. i imagine myself as a bird, swooping through the grasses and up, up, up through the rocks to the very tippy-top of the world.

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the small stuff

monday, feb 22: it's a cranky day, and not even my writing class can buoy my spirits. i don't know what's wrong with me, but certainly nothing is right. but at the end of the day, i walk into his house and sink into his sofa and watch ice dancing on olympics and think to myself...it's the little things that matter.

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