Nothing Ruined the Evening

Dear Delyara, That may sound like a low standard. It felt beautiful. No bad call. No upsetting school email. No money shock. No fight. No emotional clean-up operation after everyone went to bed. No one hard enough or tired enough to poison the whole atmosphere. The evening just stayed ordinary. And I realized how much I now associate peace with the absence of one thing going wrong enough to change my tone. That is a sad realization, maybe. It is also honest. Tonight stayed intact. That counted as joy.