Ten.Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Ninety-Five
Consistency.
I declare today a good day because it’s Thursday and that means tomorrow is Friday.
Those are stress responses.
They’ve harvested the grapes from these vines. For some reason, I thought these were just vanity rows, decoration. I spot a small cluster tucked behind a leaf.
It is funny how that happens. Why do they think I’m the one with the answers? It happens everywhere I go.
I see him at every game, but I have no idea who he is. He leans over and opens a newspaper to show me something. He points at my son’s name. “Isn’t this your son?” “It is.” He asks me if I want the newspaper. I do.
They say they would read an article about me and my relationship with coffee.
Focus on what is.
Nervous? Yes. But afraid? No.
“I am a woman of violent contradiction.” - The Albanian Virgin by Alice Munro
