How to empty a cup (di Michael K. Gause)
“10 years.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, they’re from my mom’s house, and she got them ten years ago. Brandywine heirlooms.”
“And they’re?…”
“Yeah, their sprouting!”
That was a few days ago sitting at the dining room table drinking coffee, as my wife tells me about what she’s planting in the window, and I smile with hope.