Banished

There is but one room in this house for congregating, and the teenagers have it — lights out, sitting side-by-side on the couch for a movie. And so we find ourselves banished to the provinces.

We sit around the dining room table and quietly chat. Or we wander into the study and click at the keyboard. The bedroom in the back beckons although it is early.

But here's the thing of it...

A year and a half from now he'll be gone. And we'll have all the light we want and plenty of time on the couch alone. And we will be wishing that he were here, claiming the living room from time to time just as they are tonite. And we will missed being banished.

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