Surprise!
I liked this moment in Jonathan Carroll’s The Wooden Sea:
What is more gratifying than to lie next to your partner in your own bed mornings, thoughts just beginning to take shape, sharp-edged early light coming through the window and warming a patch of floor where your shoes are mixed with hers from the night before? What is more fulfilling than waking to your own satisfying life with someone treasured next to you? What more could we ask for and not be ashamed?
That is a truly lovely thought. I hope to experience that someday.
And then come children….
Right! My first thought after your comment, Jonathan, was “yeah, me too.” The guy in the book has an older teenager who probably sleeps in. That sounds truly lovely.