Appreciating Reetika

It was a hot, sunny day in June, 2002, when Reetika and Jehan came over to spend morning until late afternoon with me on my porch. We sat in the kitchen while I fixed lunch and later took a walk around the neighborhood to encourage Jehan to take that nap that he was trying so hard to resist. But generally we just sat on the porch and talked about poetry, her mothering, my grandmothering, the specifics of spices in soups, the big questions of love and time. With Jehan playing on a blanket and conversation curling from hour to hour, time seemed endless. Yet now—when I look at the photo Reetika snapped that day of Jehan, my dog Rosie, and myself—time stands still

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