I was at a party the other night with intelligent and fascinating people.

I got kinda hammered.

It was lit up on the outside.  Easy to spot.

At a dear friend’s house who talked to the daughters we brought like adults.

A warm and generous house built over a century ago. Somewhere sorta east of Glendale. Delicious food and wine.  Party favor, 3D looking glasses that turned every Christmas light into the Star of David. Plenty of Christmas lights.

Beautiful, nonsensical architecture and floor plan. Couches and benches with drawers in odd places. Rooms under or over sized.  Shelves and refrigerator way across from the sink and counter tops.  Tile behind hanging spoons and spatulas in comforting colors. A man cave not attached to the main house and a second story that clearly wasn’t included in the festivities.

I’m tempted to break in while they’re at work.

Check the rest out.

There was the nest of a child gone just recently to the halls of the Ivy League.  A pallor of reluctance over a girl that might be too earnest and ambitious. A girl that I only met once but so impressed me. We were invited to leave our coats on her empty bed.

There was a monochromatic, “color desaturated”, female Santa who turned out to be funny and real as fuck.  She looked me right in the eye when she talked to me and I doubt she knew she was doing it.

My genius wife melted into all the eccentric people.

She was lovely.

Goddamn.

It was lovely.

He was lovely.

We stayed until 5 am, drinking and talking. They don’t drink but there were other people that still were.  I think.  I walked his neighbor home long after she cried on me and his interrogations about my writings and my thoughts behind them.

Actors, artists and musicians, oh my.

We arrived home with a booze mop of 24 hour cheese burger, fries and diet coke.  The humility of company with charismatic people.  Indulgence of clever men and women. The perfume of friendship.

It was awesome.

I knew it would be.

We were invited by the dear friend of mine and his lovely wife who cheated death not long ago. That particular element lent it all a lightness of being. She glowed. So did everyone else.

I am smiling.

I need to get out more.

Drinks for my friends.

 

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