My happy today? Well it wasn’t the embarrassing and spontaneous nose bleed I had in front of a prospective client. It wasn’t the long wait in the doctor’s office, afraid I was going to leave with more germs than I carried in. It wasn’t even skipping a real supper because I was too exhausted to prepare anything. No, shockingly, my happy had nothing to do with any of those things, but everything to do with a couple of guitars and four young people whom I love oh so very much.
One of my nephews is now all grown up and living on his own on the other side of the country. He was in town for a few days and called to see if he could stop by to visit with us for a little while before flying back home tomorrow. The only time slot to see both of us was at 9:30 at night.
9:30pm is really not the optimal time to visit with me about anything. My brain function (what’s left of it) has completely shut down for the night. My fingers feel like dead weight at the ends of my hands and don’t move when my brain, which you’ll remember has stopped functioning, sends a message to them. My eyes have only one purpose and that is to have no purpose until morning. And my body progressively shrinks as it compresses into the fetal position, no matter where I’m sitting.
But when my nephew and his sister and brother arrived, my rocking chair vantage point never felt so good. All iDevices were shut down and at my nephew’s insistence, my daughter retrieved a couple of guitars. They played together. They sang together. They laughed together. We were all simply together. Happiness.
Oh, and the camera turning sideways there at the very end? Look at the clock on the wall. Remember, it was waaaay past my bedtime.