Ten.One Thousand, Three Hundred & Twenty-One

1. The first bit of light.

2. I finish the scholarship application. This feels right. We’ll see what happens.

3. Maybe it wasn’t the taste I missed, but the ritual of it.

4. I sit and breathe.

5. The sunrise is so beautiful but I can’t quite capture it with my phone. It doesn’t matter. It is enough that I was able to witness it.

6. The colors of the coffee and the frothy oat milk in this midnight blue mug and the blue-gray-gold slate floor.

7. I tell him that sometimes I just need to get out of the house. These short trips to and from school satisfy that need.

8. The black man with the hot pink dreads in his CIA coat rides by us on his bike. “There he is!” I say.

9. Diving timing? Signs? Confirmation of the spirit? Whatever it is, I am exactly where I’m supposed to be at this moment.

10. He eats a third helping of farro and I feel like I’ve won the Mothering Olympics today.