while i was slogging through my breakfast juk, andrew went down to the cafe in the lobby and got his own breakfast. when he returned, as has been our evolving custom, he gave me a few tablespoons of coffee "just for the taste."
"your little taste of heaven, sir," he said like a deferential butler.
"oh thank you, good brother," i replied. i pushed my tray of half-finished hospital cuisine toward him. "and here is your little taste of hell."
we had a laugh, and then when my coffee was done i said, "my heaven is concluded."
andrew riffed on this into a joke. "a man dies and goes to the gates of saint peter only to find them closed and dilapidated. the guard at the gate is surprised to see someone. he says, 'this place closed years ago. that experiment is definitively concluded.'"
for some reason this caused me to laugh longer and harder than i have in a long time. we went on to discuss the novelistic potential of running with the idea of an "outsourced" or "privatized" heaven.
Your comments make me laugh. Hope you’re feeling better.
I like this…jot down the ideas. Could be a book in it! I have several books to write, but I am still waiting for the discipline to sit still for longer than 20 minutes. Thought discipline and sitting still would come with old age, but I keep getting older, and still have no discipline. Or to reframe it positively, I still want to try something new every 20 minutes!
My 8 year old HP PC desktop finally crashed, at the same time as my cheapo, $397 Costco Hp laptop died (it was, after all, 2 months past its warranty date!), so I have been computer shopping. I am going to switch to an Apple IMac, and for $99 get 52 weeks of one on one training.. Maybe I’ll learn to use it for more than 10 percent of its capability. I use my IPad daily, for most things, and love it so much I decided to become an Apple fanatic. I am even going to get an IPhone!
You two sound good for each other. I am glad Andrew was able to take the time and join you. Love, Wendy aka Mom