11/28/20 RMB Happy Birthday Words, Lexie and Toast
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Rita Mae Brown,
I determined to write a letter on
your birthday. Yet, the words, they don’t come easy. The ones that will leave
an impact; that will mean something; that will be worthy of the space they occupy.
I sit. I think. I go get a snack. Sit
some more. Think some more.
While awaiting creativity to
flourish, I tap Google Play on my phone to tune into some Spanish music. Google
Play is no longer a thing, but it refers me to YouTube Music.
Hmm, I tap Spotify looking for my past
attempts to create a play list with plans to add Spanish music. Spotify gives
me a line about “something” going wrong and wants me to reload the app. Nope,
annoyed I go elsewhere for my musical enjoyment.
I start a mission to find YouTube Music,
but land on plain old YouTube, search for Spanish Music and boom, I’m set.
While Enrique Iglesias serenades me,
I eat my morning snack of cream of wheat and toast. Actually, it is half cream
of wheat and half cream of rice with some coffee creamer and honey mixed in
with a gluten free milk.
The ingredients I thought would mix
well have melded into an over-sweet glop. I eat it anyway, because the words
have not formed, and it is the thing in front of me to do. I read in a dabbling
sort of way Jen Sincero’s You Are a Badass Every Day.
The toast is good. While enjoying
it, a small thud impacts my outstretched legs and I look up from my book. Lexie
The Kitten, our family’s newest addition, peeks up at me.
A silky black body with wide eyes
moves to the napkin and toast. She thinks perhaps she has found a treasure. She
sniffs the remaining half piece of toast, which I pick up and begin munching.
She is not deterred in her quest and tastes a crumb, immediately deciding this is
no treasure at all and she disappears as quickly as she appeared.
Happy Birthday and Happy
Thanksgiving too,
Loraine
