Coffee with Hannah

The Vero Cafe, Eugene, Oregon

I got a text from Hannah today.  Funny how much you can tell from a few short words, and the timing of those words, even when they are not spoken.  She seems okay, but maybe a little bit not okay..

I've known Hannah since she was a little girl.  Now in her mid-twenties, she is a creative, strong, smart young woman in the midst of becoming.  Over coffee, we talk about grieving for what was even as we embrace what's becoming.  

Even with tears in her eyes, Hannah is radiant with possibility and resolve. And she reminds me that I am like that too. We linger on the patio at the Vero cafe over a second coffee, savoring the chill air.  And then it's time for each of us to return to the everyday race of getting things done and figuring out how to pay.

But we are changed by the moment when each of us was a little dissolved in the other, a little less on our own island.    She will back next weekend.