The Ride Home and Playing "What's in the Fridge?"

[thisnewday]

After a disappointing dinner, last night, at which my grandson uttered perhaps 3-5 words, picked at his food, and stared at his cell phone, the ride home from a friend's house--which I was asked to provide tonight--was actually quite congenial.

It included a discussion of one of those questions, which he sometimes asks, wherein the respondent remains unsure, over the course of it, what the question REALLY is and is therefore doubtful as to whether it's actually being answered.

We won't get into the substance of yesterday's discussion here because, after 24 hours of reflection, I'm STILL unsure that I could accurately state the question.

The point is, there WAS a discussion in which two people were speaking in response to each other. Two people in the same physical space with neither of their faces illuminated by the omnipresent glow of a digital communication device.

So, yayyy, life is good. Or better than it was, anyway. I still have a low-sodium lasagna taking up space on a shelf of my refrigerator. Made with, gag, Swiss cheese. WTF was I even thinking?

Oh yeah, that it's low in sodium. And made from a recipe. Written by doctors.

And tastes like (You fill in the blank, because I can't. I've been through enough already.)...

LPK
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10.22.2018 

Comments

[rosegardenfae]

I'm glad you had an actual conversation, a rare thing to pull off these days.

[thisnewday]

Yup, rare indeed. In the past, I've threatened to throw the phone out the car window. But then I'd just have to buy him a new one. And things are so fragile these days that, well, I'm really trying to go easy on the kid's feelings. More on that in a post that I'm working on...

[rosegardenfae]

I hear you on fragility. Anah seems to be developing my anxiety. That really freaks me out. It is quite near the anniversary of her friend's suicide so that could be the trigger. Just hoping it is another phase, I do not want hrr to suffer as I have.

I can't get her to talk to me and her mother, being a nurse, has compassion burn out.

At least it's a beautiful day here.