No Whipped Cream

How much sugar does medicine need before it's sippable? How much joy does life need before it's livable? It's a lot more than you'd expect.

Tonight I made cocoa, but it was simple, in a small cup. Milk, Chocolate, a dash of Malt. No whipped cream, no MnMs, no white chocolate chips, no cinnamon, no brown sugar swirls. No whipped cream. Another of life's surprises.

I stayed up late, dreaming of Greece and reading of Rome. It's that time of night. The cicada's and powdery moths are beating their frail wingéd bodies against the glass of the windows leading into the light. But I smile, because I know something they don't.

No matter how distant the sun seems, things will turn out -- not for the better, but for the best.