She’s watched for his return at each day’s evening, his briefcase stuffed as if with deermeat, umbrella a spent spear. Forty years of triumphal entrances, attentive welcomings, end in this gift-loaded euphoric homecoming. Something near to fear
stirs in her. The house has been hers throughout the core of every day, close shelter for her busy morning hours, her re-creative afternoons. Now it opens its traitor door, switches allegiances to his clamour, his masterfulness, his more insistent needs. How long had she dug, hoed and planted the suburban flower patch, made it colourful and fragrant for his weekend leisure? Now he comes in with the air of a pioneer, as if her patient garden were wilderness for his first cultivation; and she’ll pretend
(habits are hard to break) when called on to admire, that everything he grows is magical, as if no million years but he alone made this summer’s rose.
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"I like to take the things people don’t see as beautiful and somehow make them beautiful." Blogs are just about the closest thing we get online to a conversation with those we have yet to meet, so I’m just plain old thrilled…
So you wait and you wait and you wait. You trawl all the cook shops in the locality and you keep your fingers crossed in all the most unlikely places. But you never see one. Perhaps they don’t have them here? Too…
Oh scrumptious! There is nothing I like better than finding delicious ways to turn routine into a ritual to be savored: particularly when that routine is as dull as washing your smalls- so I am always thrilled to find products that offer…
I do believe that it is when things are alright, or maybe even when things are more than alright, that we recognise a kind of hunger: a need for something we can’t identify. I call it the gap. An emptiness. A space…
The mommies of all the three year olds I know (hmm..four of us!) are abandoning the little monsters to hit the town tonight. Starting off with a jolly to the theatre to see Chicago and ending who knows where. Or when. Please…
Isn’t it just scandalous when life gets in the way of blogging? Last week I was on a roll- blogging past myself, doo-lally and delighted by both maelstrom and merriment. Gleeful with who knows what? So I started cleaning. Tearing off loose…
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
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Aint that the truth!!!
Aint that the truth!!!
Ouch. Yes. Nice poem! Where did you find that? So poignant.
Ouch. Yes. Nice poem! Where did you find that? So poignant.
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….
Yes, but women are out of the house more these days, bearing their pioneer spirits into yards where lotsa hubbies claim yard after square yard to cultivate their primly mowed lawns — there's that, too. As for the homecoming bit, a warm welcome is something the first one home should give — and it isn't always the wife these days. Still, the "near to fear" bit — men are still boss most of the time….