The bus didn’t come for Julia yesterday and I drove her to school. When I came back into the house, I breathed in the aromas of our morning—coffee, sweet tea, bananas and chocolate chip waffles with maple syrup. Could I delineate each flavor note? Probably not but smelling one, I imagined all the others. The aroma was that of our mornings. And there was such a peace in that. Our home takes on that aroma most mornings, I suppose. It is warm and welcoming. It is a good home smell, the scent of security, from which to leave to begin a day. Such a relief. It did not have to be like that. Even now. And I appreciate the work that I’ve done to make it so. It has been a long haul.
And yet, peace and security is so fragile.