My daughter showed me
how to eat
candied ginger
by poking a chopstick
through it
and then sucking on it
like a lollipop
I bet you are wondering
what's so great about that
I tell you
it's great
I would go so far as to say
it's sensational
because she is
teaching me to be ten
again
to slurp
it up
and enjoy it
unabashedly
she brought me
here
in
stages
and now on the eve
of her 11th birthday
I am learning
that
life goes in circles
not lines
and
that the greatest
enjoyment of
something
sometimes
comes from
going back there
again.
