• Supper with Tom and Keith at Mammoth Cave Hotel Restaurant on Thursday night
• Birthday lunch for Bob in The Bookstore in Horse Cave, KY the next day
• And supper back here in Lebanon, TN, with my friends from Scotland that night

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Sharing Food: a sonnet

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The three of us know well it is too much
but still we order chicken freshly fried.
The food is good but underneath the touch
of friendship warms the early summertide.

The circle at the luncheon birthday feast
have come to celebrate this special day.
The food again is good but not the least
ingredient is joy along the way.

Two friends now from afar have made a stop
to catch us up and share another meal.
Though seven years have passed we do not drop
the threads of interest time cannot steal.

From common likes we learn to share the glad.
In sharing food we steel against the sad.

-- Robert H. Stone, May 23, 2009