Originally Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving night, and dinner with my mother is complete. We downed a bottle of champagne in no time. Everything went like clockwork. But she is finished cooking, she says. It was a lot of work and wore her out. It takes longer to cook and clean than to eat, of course, so I got off too easy. There were leftovers, which was the plan, and I will be making my evening sandwich later on tonight. But I have planned badly and am out of whiskey, so tonight is full of vodka and gin. I am reading Osborne's book on wine which does not help to slow me down at all. I cannot recommend the book as it is too researched. The writing is that sort in many places, like Melville's "Cetology" chapter in Moby Dick. Now that I'm a writer (winky face), I can tell when a paragraph has taken an hour of rewriting from academic notes. It is dull information rather than the lively repartee that makes writing wonderful. Still, I will finish the fucking book because there are moments. But I wish to be on to other things.
A most wonderful part of the day was giving and receiving holiday cheer from people I know and people I almost know. Emails, texts, and phone calls were plentiful and much, much appreciated. I heard from the mother of one of my models (a minor) who wanted to know if I was at my mother's house for dinner. What a lovely memory she has. I had a long and irreverent call with Sean in the morning discussing the troubles and pleasures of our times. I heard from people I have never met but have been "pen pals" with for a number of years, and strangely (for I never would have thought such a thing, really) was moved. I heard from Red (though nothing very personal) and a number of models who have become friends. I heard from photographers around the country, too. Jesus. . . it is almost as if my life were full! As a sick colleague once told me after I had written him a warm message, it is astonishing how much words can mean.
And so it has been a happy Thanksgiving, simple and sweet. Love love love from me and my pesky cat. We are well on our way to seeing the evening to it's satisfying denouement. We love you all.
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