Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Invisible Embrace


The Invisible Embrace

On Friday I told Maggie I was going to build the gate for our 
back fence. She lifted an eyebrow at my declaration, mainly 
because this is a project that I've been putting off for, oh, about 
2 years.

On Saturday morning Maggie and Maura went off to a swim meet; 
the boys were sleeping over at friends' houses. I did not go directly 
to work on the gate. I walked out to the back fence where I was 
overtaken by the warm sun, the buzzing of bees, and the joyously 
overgrown end-of-summer jumble of plants.

So I put off the gate for another half-hour or so and got lost in the 
morning.

~ Hal

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