Kitchen Tables
There’s something inherently relaxing about kitchen tables. There, is a place where you can sit and sip on a warm cup of tea or several cups of tea and while away the hours discussing anything or nothing with whoever happens to drop by. Lounge room tables are for proper dinners with guests where the kids have to behave but kitchen tables are where a family lives and builds community. Being invited to someone’s kitchen is like being invited to spend time in their family, a place of comfortable intimacy. Meals taken at a kitchen table don’t have to be fancy, they can be just what happens to be on the stove or in the fridge. Mismatched coffee cups aren’t out of place there and if the kids happen to spill their cordial then it doesn’t really matter. Kitchen tables are for friends who drop in unexpectedly for a chat and for late night talk fests that seem to solve the problems of the world, at least for a while. When I finally buy a house it is going to have a kitchen table but until then the friends that invite me to theirs are precious.
