I’m trying something new for me this month, a web community challenge: Gwen Bell’s The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge. Find the best the year has offered me, and review, remember, contemplate, reflect, and celebrate it. There’s a question/topic each day.
Today’s prompt is December 2 — Restaurant moment….
I didn’t eat out much this year and while there were a few pleasant and even delightful experiences, I don’t think they qualify as special moments. But there was an extended moment in one meal while I was out visiting in Chico. My brothers, sister-in-law, and I walked to dinner at a very nice Chinese restaurant one evening. It was a delicious meal and a nice relaxed hour or so during a trying family time. I hadn’t seen my younger brother and his wife for almost three years before that visit, and a year had passed since I’d seen my older brother when he was visiting in my neck of the woods. But as it always is with us, we’d just jumped right in like no time had gone by. As we ate, we yakked about all manner of things, catching up with each other, etc. The conversation stopped for me for just a split second and I was outside time looking at my loved ones. I scanned around the table and felt comforted and a sense of belonging. Then the moment passed and I joined back in. It would have been a special meal for me anyway, but that made it more so.
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