Fawlty Showers 2

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When I got to my office the next day I remembered it was my mother’s birthday.   She’d been gone many years.  I still missed her.

I drew a stick figure on a tablet. Next to the head I listed good memories of her, starting with her sitting on the couch, flanked on either side by a grandchild, reading to them, as happy as I’d ever seen her.

Next to the ears, I described listening to my wife laugh as she talked on the phone to my mother, the two of them being the best of friends.

I drew a mouth and wrote ‘Sunday dinners.’ The woman could cook.

I wiped a tear away, and said to my laptop, “Enough of this.”  When I picked up my phone, a banner announced bad news.  Bad news oozed from the TV 24/7, and like a car crash, you knew you shouldn’t look, but you couldn’t help it.

I put my phone down. “Can’t ignore the news, but it couldn’t hurt to take a little more time dwelling on good memories.” I picked up the tablet again.

 

Today I will stop and dwell on a good memory.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:

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