Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “memories of the room you’re in.” Write about a memory of the room (or park, or gym, or where ever you are) you’re in when you write your post. Enjoy!
Most of the time, I start my SoCS post on Friday afternoon at the dining room table. It’s a small room with a small table and a view of the catio with the backyard beyond. That’s where I pasted the prompt just to get started. Sometimes I write the whole post there, then add photos, tags, etc. later in the living room.
So now, it’s a few hours later, and I’m sitting on the couch with my feet up, laptop on my lap and The Hunger Games on the TV as background. I “watch” my favorite movies many times and just look up for my favorite parts. I might switch to Star Trek during my least favorite parts. But back to the room, which is my small but cozy living room.
So many memories. Christmas comes to mind like decorating the tree when the kids were little. It seems like Christmas is a time when family – grown kids and grandkids come over. That’s one reason I want to move to the hills to be closer to my kids.
I remember breastfeeding my baby girl in this living room and listening through the screen door to the older kids playing and singing in the summer rain. I’d saved up enough vacation to take the whole summer off for maternity leave. That was the summer of 1993. It was wonderful.
There are a few not so fond memories from this living room over the past 35 years. There was the time my first husband asked me to sit down on the couch and told me he was leaving our 20-year marriage. To sum it up (retrospectively) in a nutshell, I wasn’t fun anymore.
A few years later, after the rebound from hell, I had a little party of close friends on Valentine’s Day. We wrote affirmations on index cards for each person going around the room. That’s a good memory. Several years later, in 2011, I remember sitting on the living room couch with David on the weekend of our second first date, smelling his neck and his intoxicating scent that had imprinted on my 16-year-old brain in 1972.
Now, my mother’s angels reside on the shelves in my living room along with a few other angels and treasures I’ve added.
Today’s gallery includes a bee on wisteria and Marley and David at our neighborhood creek.
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