We Need to Gather

What we really need is to gather because after a long day of talking to no one your throat closes up and it’s hard to eat dinner.

But we really need to gather together and share a cocktail or a nibble of cheese maybe some hot apple cider and the latest issue of the Wall Street Journal.

If we did gather, all of us would feel more comforted, because there would be people near us, like there were when we were children. Only this time the people would be chosen by us so our group would be filled with like-minded souls. I would like it if when we were gathering, we could listen tentavely to each member of our group and see how their day had gone. No one would jump in and talk about their own day because of some prompt, but the group would hold themselves open like the Hollywood bowl and other members could say whatever was on their mind and know it would be honored.

 

If we did gather, I would make it an event in front of a fire because I like the noise of a fire. You know you can buy that noise on Apple Music. It’s kind of amazing to me what you can buy on Apple Music or Amazon for that matter but the problem is you can’t buy human beings to love you,you can’t ask people if you can move in with them because you’re lonely, you can’t tell your children that you would like it if they called you more often. All you can do is set up your life so that you feel like your gathering as often as you need to.