FIRST CALIFORNIA SATURDAY MORNING COFFEE

i heard it snowed back home today... is it still back home if there's nobody there? it's amazing how easy it is to drown in those ideas. so i look up, and out the window onto a sacramento morning. crisp, yeah but we're supposed to get up into the high 70's, maybe even hit 80 today.

i can feel the rumblings of the city i live in now. and of san francisco only about 80 miles away. it's vibrant. it's challenging to rise above the loss and to see i am part of the living. i am still here.

i pour my boyfriend his morning coffee. i wake my dog. i text my brother. i do have a family. and i was taught by the best. my mother. damn it, i miss you.