New Year, 1 January 2024
A New Year greeting for a table with some empty places and the meal made anyway.
The salads were made this year the way they are made every year, by people who had every reason to skip it and did not.
Some tables are smaller than they were. Some are in a different city, or a different country, with a video call propped against a glass so that the far end of the family is at least present in some form.
Keeping the ordinary shape of an evening is not a small thing. It is most of what holding together looks like from the inside.
A good year to all of you, and to the ones you were thinking of at midnight.
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