“The Perfect Celebratory Drink”

Brut.  Funny how the sparkling becomes it, even as the Scotch is preferred.  Truly a moment where it is the thought that counts, the decisions that count, the lives that count.  Crete, 2006, the start of a career.  How long.  The struggle in the disclosure, the Victoria Falls flight, the Stayner’s reveal, the meeting at BOMA.  

The stories.  The missing her, her missing me, in the night.  The shit Friends re-runs.  The laughably wonderful certainty of such an uncertain thing.