gather round.
i miss having a kitchen table. i haven't had a kitchen table in one year, eight months and 15 days. tonight, as i sat in silence, eating my sandwich (which, by the way, i really enjoyed) i realized how much i have missed it.it moved about a week before i moved out of my apartment in bloomington. it moved into storage, i moved into nowhere. then, when i got the house, i lost a place to put one. since it's not fun or easy to work around a table when refinishing a floor, the table (which is slated to move in with my brother and sister-in-law when they finish their house) was relegated to the second bedroom to hold the computer. this has worked out well, since i use my computer a lot. i eat my meals on my couch or the livingroom floor (mostly because the kitchen floor is extremely uncomfortable) and fill the silence with the tv.
i grew up in a household that didn't have a tv in the dining room or kitchen. and the tv in the family room was turned off during mealtime. this was intentional. we gathered around the table, as a family, to share a meal and we talked. there's just something to sharing a meal with people. taking a break from the hecticness of the day and focusing energing on eating and finding out who the peole around you are.
tonight, i sat in silence. and i sat at a kitchen table. not my own, but one indeed. and aside from giving me motivation to finish my floors, i had a chance to spend some quality time with myself. and maybe that's what i miss the most.
posted by julie @ 5:57 PM
2 Comments:
Quiet is a wonderful thing. Far too little of it around for my tastes.
My family was like yours and I struggle in today's world to provide the same for mine.
. . . lovely . . .
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