To My Friends in Genealogy Book Club: August Meeting Post-COVID

We gathered up on Kati’s deck on a sunny August day

with the view spread out in crystal light sprawling all across the Bay.

We talked again ‘bout books and friends, exclaimed about the weather,

caught up on one another’s news, just glad to be together.

We paused to mourn our friends who’ve passed,

rejoiced that we can meet at last,

talked about the books we’ve read,

and made our plans for the months ahead.