gifts before noon today

ahh, friday, i love you.

we climbed up the rocky way to starr king this morning, scrambling up like rock climbers and being snow leopards. maya cut her wrist but did not cry. on the playground a parent gave her a pink rubber bracelet for her suffering.

miles got involved with a pack of kids and did not seek me out to say goodbye when the bell rang, a first.

maya and i walked down 24th st and watched ants crawling out of cracks with white food in their mouths. a stooped and smiling old lady threw rice for the pigeons. we ate a hipster donut listening to old soul music and then a stranger gave maya two metal bicycle-shaped keychains she made for her business.

we saw lobsters in tank with rubber bands around their claws. disney princess on ice posters, religious statues that look like queens, a cute little doggie, aww, some broken glass to step over. a bus stop poster with a man and a woman wearing gas masks.

at maya's dance class a little bit of her tinkerbell dress ripped and she let another girl have it for a bracelet. then she shocked me by giving away the pink rubber bracelet to a little girl named frankie.

on the way home i got maya rice and beans and the waitress gave maya a floating green balloon with a pink string. we walked by two memorials, candles and flowers and photos huddled around trees.

then maya's balloon got away. she started to get upset and then decided against it.

home now in our dirty apartment, maya watching a little bit of little bear, quiet green trees blowing around in the back yards.

happy weekend
xo,
j