Claimed by my ex husband’s uncle
He takes it, turns it over, taps it against the tray, and then holds it toward me with the offering gesture he has developed — the same gesture Roberta uses to share significant objects, which he has absorbed from watching her over eleven months.
"Thank you," I say, and take the spoon, and examine it, and return it.
He receives it with satisfaction.
We are, at this moment, exactly what we are — a man and an eleven-month-old in a kitchen in the November morning, passing a wooden spoon between them with the specific seriousness that such transactions deserve. I find that this is one of the mornings I will keep — not because anything significant happens in it, but because nothing is required fr