The Moment Right Now
I’m not going to tell you anything lesson-y or essay-y today—I’m literally just going to describe the moment I’m experiencing right now. Maybe it will be educational anyway, maybe it will beautiful, I don’t know—I have no idea how it will be. Let’s see together.
I’m laying on the ‘red couch’, kinda leaned onto my left side, propped up a bit by pillows. I’m typing on my laptop and there are loud trucks and things outside periodically. I opened the window so Chloe could have some fresh air and maybe feel a little better. She’s been through a lot today—a very long day that isn’t yet over, and it’s 7AM the next day right now. She had so many flight delays, so much airplane nightmare shit, trying to get back home to New York City. But that’s not this moment—I’ll try and stay on this moment.
On the TV is the Throwback Jamz Music Choice channel, and Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘One More Change / Stay With Me (Remix)’ is playing. I can hear birds chirping and planes going by overhead. I can see Chloe on the ‘black couch’, half covered in her scarlet blanket I got her a bunch of christmases ago. She is fast asleep and there is a bowl of a little bit left of ‘bok choy skillet’ as we call it, that I made tonight and saved some for her for when she finally got home, which was only a few hours ago. It’s a dish my mom came up with, and named. It’s got napa cabbage or bok choy, carrots, scallions, fresh ginger, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, and sometimes burdock. Mirin and nama shoyu. Vegetable broth. Some arrowroot as thickener. You have it over buckwheat soba noodles, with nori shake and shichimi and Bragg’s liquid aminos on top. It’s very good. Chloe had a giant bowl of it after her shower when she came home, and now she’s asleep, which she’s needed to do since 4AM yesterday morning. She’s been up more than 24 hours, most of it just trying to get fucking home. What should have been a three hour flight. Insane.
The light is coming in nicely through our doily-looking curtains. Both of us will finally go to sleep soon, properly, in bed together. I’ll probably not sleep as long as her—I’ll let her sleep as long as she wants to or needs to though. She definitely needs it.
There’s a ‘Daffy glass’ on a side stand next to me, mostly-filled with water. Daffy glasses are my favorite glasses. They’re a tall glass with Daffy Duck on it, I think from the early seventies. I’d see them a lot at flea markets and get them cheaply. I think I have like five or six. There’s a blue mug next to it on the stand, with a spent Stomach Ease Yogi brand tea in it. I needed it earlier, when I was stressing out about Chloe’s travel hell.
My laptop is kind of leaned on an ottoman next to the couch, and ottoman too is two remotes, the one for the DVR and the one for the PS3. On the chair next to the couch is two more remotes, one for the Roku and one for the TV. We watched a few Joel Haver and Dax Flame youtube videos we didn’t get to watch while she was gone. We like to watch them together, and on the TV. They were good.
There’s more that I could describe, but I feel like that’s enough to paint this moment. Mostly I just want to go to sleep. But more than that I just want to be in a bed with her again.
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