We had a delightful visit recently with my sister and brother-in-law and their two grown children who live elsewhere but joined us old folks for a meal and conversation. It was thoroughly enjoyable and an invite we eagerly anticipate when we’re visiting family in Massachusetts.
A visit often starts with wine and conversation in the living room, then a delicious sit-down meal at the dining room table, then more conversation which often turns to politics and the nightmare that is the Trump administration.
While it might be enlightening or otherwise beneficial to stretch oneself by plunging into debates and such with people of differing political stripes, it’s nice every now and then to be among kindred spirits who basically are on the same page when it comes to opinions of Trump and his hapless cast of sycophants and pretenders.
A lot of territory was covered, anger expressed, but there was also a fair amount of humor and laughter. Once we sat down for supper, we didn’t get up again until it was time to go home.
The conversation is always engaging and often cathartic, and I always feel a bit lighter by the time we leave at the end of the evening.
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