Posted by ruby on July 5, 2003, at 23:16:39
In reply to Ruby...don't take your love to town, posted by whiterabbit on July 5, 2003, at 23:06:24
i'm smiling, gracie, at your message and your nighties and letting the dogs in and the cup of tea...all such reassuring images.
some city-living rituals: hearing the grate go down at midnight at the chinese restaurant down below my window; locking the 3rd lock on my door; killing a few cockroaches at the kitchen sink... not meaning to sound cynical, just sort of laughing at myself...and that is a good thing to be doing for myself right now.
i had a good friend, a woman in her 80s, who i've lost to a stroke-induced coma, who used to call me sometimes to say "nightie-night" and what a good thing that was.
so in madeleine's spirit, i say "nightie-night" to you all and i go and get into my pjs. thank you, thank you.
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