A lovely Thanksgiving concluded with eight of us in a room – four of us family by blood, the other four family by choice. The meal-sharing was a bit scattered, different people with different plans, although all of us live here – Susan and I don’t do much going out and socializing, but we like having people we like around.
So we made a bunch of food and watched a couple movies, comedies, and it’s weird that just laughing with people you know expresses solidarity. But it works, and yeah I already had connections with everyone there tonight but something as simple as enjoying the same jokes seems to solidify bonds. And the kitchen got cleaned between movies, which believe me was a helluva trick (that didn’t quite work – I missed a couple minutes of the second movie, but I’d seen it before).
Not the usual sort of leftovers with this method – little food and no alcohol will survive – but tomorrow there’s this batch of people who all enjoyed time together. And a bunch of us will be having coffee in the (late) morning.
