Thursday, December 13, 2012

We're All Feeling Better Now

I got to the Assisted Living place and Mother was pitiful. Yes, she was. But she'd eaten some and I found out that last night she'd even gone to the dining room for some soup and she's been drinking plenty of fluids and I started showing her pictures of the boys and telling her stories about them and before I knew it, she was laughing and then the doctor came up and then we were all laughing and I told her she better get herself together because she has nine people coming for dinner and that's that.
So.
She asked me to find her an outfit, which I did, and I got her a bowl of soup and some crackers and she said she'd eat that and then take a nap and she allowed as how she might not eat anything at the dinner but that would be okay and I said that yes, it would because I had a feeling that someone at our table would manage to eat whatever she didn't and she laughed about that, too. I think she was feeling somewhat cheerful when I left.

And then I went and had a near-perfect experience of happiness, at least ten minutes of it. I bought a pre-packaged Cuban sandwich from Publix and I sat in my car in the parking lot and ate it and read part of the New Yorker I'd just gotten and for that amount of time, I was completely and utterly content. I was as happy as any cow in any pasture on a sunny day, up to her knees in the lushest grass on the planet.

It's funny how that works, isn't it? A three dollar and fifty-cent cold sandwich, a magazine, and solitude. The whole world spun on without me and it was grand.

9 comments:

  1. So glad your mom is better. That time in the car with a sandwich and a magazine sounds perfect to me too.

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  2. This is just...sacred. You had just left your mother happy. And somehow, that unchained something inside you and allowed you the peace to just be.

    This made me happy.

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  3. Boy oh boy. Right there with with you. Only I went for a pedicure. I needed it worse than my feet did, if ya know what I mean.

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  4. Happy you both are feeling better. Hope the evening goes as well.
    xo

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  5. Happiness runs in a circular motion . . . Donovan. Good stuff x

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  6. Good to hear your mom is better and happier.
    I remember I used to love shopping at Costco and then buying a hot dog and eating it in the car when I was still in California. Oh if only Oklahoma had Costco, I would probably be in heaven. I do miss the west coast.

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  7. I love what Angella said. Beautiful

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  8. Mel- It was glory.

    Angella- You might be right, darling woman.

    Denise- I definitely know what you mean.

    Ms. Fleur- It did!

    bugerlugs- I still love Donovan.

    Rubye Jack- Costco can be pretty awesome. And I hear they pay their employees pretty well and give them good health coverage. So I don't have to feel so guilty about shopping there.

    Deb- She's a wise one.

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  9. Nice and glad that your mother is better. I am having some solitude tonight.

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