Sunday at Ruth’s
My mother still cooks for anyone who walks in. Yesterday Theo ate the bread before the pot was ready and she handed him a spoon and pointed at the sink without raising her voice.
Elena brought the library’s extra paperbacks and left them on the sideboard. June set the table and forgot the forks, then fixed it before Ruth turned around. I did the dishes.
Nobody thanked anybody. That is the good version of the house.
