You will need
- A table laid for one, with the good plates. Yes, the cloth napkin too. Something lovely to eat and drink, a candle, paper and pen.
How to
- Lay the table as if a guest you truly adore were coming. One is.
- Write down everything that has happened since the new moon. Big things, small things, a conversation you dared to have, a day you got up even though you didn't want to. All of it counts.
- Read the list aloud to yourself, and after each line say: "I did that."
- Raise your glass to the moon (or the ceiling, she knows who you mean) and say the words.
- Eat slowly. That's part of the ritual.
To the woman who did it. To the one who kept going. To me, whom the moon sees whole tonight. Cheers.