With Who Else Would I Give Up My Sweet Hours?

Glorious cool, cool rain today.

Sitting talking with my 'class' -- my writing buddies, missing my children so much with a pain that actually does seem to come from the heart, I look around and think, 'These are some of the only people in the world for whom I would give up my sweet hours.' We all are learning from this separation, from the anxieties and putting down of the anxieties, from the way we stretch our wings when we are without the support of the mother, or the lover or the child...

Their little voices on the phone, their bodies whose heat and worries I can't feel...thank goodness it is only ten days. And then we will all be changed.