11/24/2023
A day without a calendar or a clock. I spend the rest of my life adhering to schedules and regimented planning that makes my assistant's head swim. :D But yesterday was the most amazing step away from that.
I hadn't even planned a meal, but both my boys came in, but my kitchen can always accommodate my boys. I spiced the flavors and kneaded the dough to the sound of my boys' chatter. Since the day these two could talk, their chatter has been my best entertainment. I can listen to it all day long. Over the years, if I look back, this chatter has changed so much. But it has always been my best entertainment. Two boys with a bond of their own, and a sense of humor that is not always appropriate, but always hilarious. And now, we are friends as much as we are mother and boys.
I am grateful to their dad, who must have prodded these nocturnal gamers from their beds, to arrive on my doorstep.
And my loyal Dante, who was beside himself with joy that both his brothers were home.
We watched "Where the Crawdads Sing" - this movie has touched a poignant note in my soul. There are ways in which I identify with the protagonist. I have watched it many times...and I was glad my boys liked it as well.
As the afternoon wore on...before my boys left for their dad's for dinner - with my one child curled up against me, and the other, and Dante on the other couch, Dante making sounds of absolute joy because he was so happy, the world outside, a green, peaceful one where no sound penetrated our world except our own; I marveled at my blessings.
There is not much else I can ask for myself, from life. If I inhaled my last breath tomorrow, I will not take it with any sense of regret, for myself. My only goals are about everyone else - helping everyone else succeed and find theirs.
As I told my India based business associate, on Wednesday - I can only drive one car at a time, I can only sleep on one bed at a time, and I don't eat much, so what on earth will I do with more of anything else. Except shoes. I do like shoes and clothes. :D