Day 156 of 2026
“This Is For My Mother”
GAME NIGHT, LINCOLN (JUNE)
Ingredients: one dining table (cleared insufficiently), six adults who consider themselves reasonable, one child with a firm grasp of precedent.
Method: Shuffle. Deal. Wait.
When the boy rises — and he will rise — do not intervene. The object he holds above his head has legal weight now. It has always had legal weight. You simply did not know this until tonight.
The score on the wall is not the real score. The real score is kept internally, by Eddie, and he will share it when he is ready.
Note: The ceiling lamp will swing. This is normal. Shadows are expected to multiply. Allow this.
Serves: everyone, whether they wanted it or not.
Season with: the rain outside, which is the only part of this evening not arguing.