It’s coming up to a year for me and this would have been the last weekend we had together. I’m sitting at the table that we bought together not long after we moved into our first home. It’s just a basic pine kitchen table, reclaimed floor boards, we found it in a reconditioned furniture shop, sat half hidden at the back, top propped against the wall, legs lying on the floor. It was full of some other life, felt tip pens and flaking varnish, it was cheap and then it was ours. We brought it home and stripped it down, my wife brought it back with wire wool and wax. We bought chairs and sat around it for 20 years. All of our decisions were made here, sitting across from each other, smiling, arguing, crying, laughing. Friends sat with us and we fed them, heard of their life’s and they of ours. It was where we went in the morning, it was where we ended the day. We watched sunsets of blazing strata, and had nights that drifted into the chorus of birds in steel skies of dawn. Cats paraded across it, lay on it, shredded its legs. Wine was spilt, joints were rolled. This table was our sanctuary, our home, our everywhere. It’s hard on this last weekend to know she’ll never sit across from me again, grinning, settling in to another Friday night, that it’s all now our past. I can still see where her arms and elbows polished it, a brighter grain, a mark of her. But we will always have had all of that, it will always be our table. Somehow that makes this weekend easier, we filled this table with our life.
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Aww @Walan that’s beautiful, so many memories. Am thinking of you as this first year approaches x
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That is so lovely. Xx
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@Walan. Your wonderful and poignant table story has brought me to tears. I hope you feel peace this weekend remembering your dear wife.
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Hi @Rome18, I’ve been thinking of you lately and wondering if you would come back, so nice to hear from you again! Thank you for your kind wishes, I’m finding a bit of peace, sharing my memories of my wife, our life. Please don’t be upset, its all good x