Friday nights are the best since your poker buddies are coming over and you are going to finish them off on your poker match. Get that poker table ready. Get the popcorn.  Get some food ready. Ready the beer. Better make your provisions in large quantities as this poker game might stretch onto the next day.

But wait, the poker table can’t be found. Somebody might have borrowed it and not yet returned it? Maybe call up the neighbor and ask him to return the poker table now? Or ask one of your poker buddies to bring his poker table with him? Is there still time left? How about making an improvised poker table with that banquet table folded up in the garage? That is a great idea!

I wonder how any of us can ever become who we’re really meant to be without first shedding that protective layer we all wear so well. Garlic looks so deceiving. You got to get inside a person–like with garlic.

We were in the kitchen and as usual, I was relegated to the mundane duty of opening wine. In this house, there was only one cook. I was the sampler, occasionally invited to stir a pot while she chopped garlic in artistic style, again insisting that the misshapen cloves were key ingredients for every recipe.

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