Chong, going home
Jun. 1st, 2014 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeMy friend Chong is heading back to Korea soon, after nearly three years in Eugene, with her two kids but mostly apart from her husband. She earned a masters in linguistics, then stayed in the U.S. longer when her husband’s job sent him to Pittsburgh but did not allow her to join him (corporate policy).
We had a potluck barbecue for her at T’s house. T. and most of the other people there have sons who played on various sports teams with Chong’s son (now finishing fifth grade), and she was invited to our weekly walking group when we started it, which was more than two years ago at this point. So I’ve had a great many conversations with her on Sunday evenings.
Anyway, so I was sitting there, in T’s back yard, around the table with a bunch of women and J., with visits from T’s son the entomologist, who shared his moth orchid mantis with us and then his penny collection with J, and I thought, this is really a good life. This is how evenings should be, as often as reasonably possible. This is where we live and who we are, and I am glad.
We had a potluck barbecue for her at T’s house. T. and most of the other people there have sons who played on various sports teams with Chong’s son (now finishing fifth grade), and she was invited to our weekly walking group when we started it, which was more than two years ago at this point. So I’ve had a great many conversations with her on Sunday evenings.
Anyway, so I was sitting there, in T’s back yard, around the table with a bunch of women and J., with visits from T’s son the entomologist, who shared his moth orchid mantis with us and then his penny collection with J, and I thought, this is really a good life. This is how evenings should be, as often as reasonably possible. This is where we live and who we are, and I am glad.