domesticity

One very lovely thing about blending household goods, and living with them for a while, is that one person's familiar possessions become familiar to the other person, too: here's a yellow cloth embroidered with butterflies, from Alice's family past - which we've been using on the table in our front yard - imagine! having salad for lunch outdoors, on the last day of November! - though right at this moment it's sitting in a bowl in the sun on the kitchen countertop.  Many things, indeed, catch the sunlight: I turned round to find Walter Gomez in the sink ...