1.2 Past Time

After about half an hour, the two finish breakfast and start cleaning the table.  Running dishwater, Henry speaks over the running water, “It is amazing at how first these solutions look so simple, but as they are put into practice, the situation becomes much more complex.”

Wrapping the pancakes in plastic wrap, Jazmin comments, “Yea.  I was told the other day that to fix this war on terrorism that we are in, that we should just start out doing what they do.  For every building blown up of ours, we should blow up a city of theirs.  The idea is to detour people from bombing in the first place and/or cause the people sheltering the terrorist to turn against them.  The idea seems sound, until you start thinking of all of the innocent life that would be taken in those cities.”

“Not to mention the fact that bombings of this kind could drive more people to the side of ‘Terrorism’.” Henry chimes in.

Pausing for Henry, Jazmin continues when he finishes, “Well as Gandi said, ‘An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind.’  The opinion of who started it or who is to finish it seems to very from person to person.  Sometimes it is hard to turn a cheek, but sometimes in the name of peace, which I feel is the ultimate weapon of terrorism, one might need to do so.”

Now fully washing the breakfast dishes, Henry adds into the conversation, “What makes it hard to do is when one’s cheek becomes so bruised it makes the weapon of peace that much harder to use.”

Thinking about what Henry said, Jazmin continues to put away the remaining leftovers and brings over more of the breakfast dishes for Henry to wash, “True…”  Not much more is said, on the subject.  The two only exchanging words in regards to the cleanup.  When finished, the two separate into two separate parts of the house.

Henry, gets into some old cloths that he uses to work on their house.  When Henry and Jazmin bought the house, the basement was unfinished.  Over the past few months, on Sundays, Henry could be found working on the basement.  Some walls now exists where they did not, yet some only consists of the 2×4 frames as sheet rock had not been hung on them yet.  It was down in the construction area that Henry spent the rest of the morning.

After the breakfast cleanup, Jazmin retreated into the office on the main floor.  It was here she spent the morning working on a blanket she had be making.  Sowing it by hand, it had taken her some time to get to the point where she is now.  Just as Henry had been slowed down by rookie mistakes with the construction in the basement, Jazmin had been slow to move on the blanket as she got familiar with the sowing motion and process.

At about one o’clock, she hollered down to Henry between the sounds of power tools to see if he was ready for lunch.  Getting a response from him that he was ready, and that he would be up shortly, Jazmin started making tempee sandwiches.  Standing cutting tomatoes for the sandwiches is where Henry found her when he came out of the basement for lunch.

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~ by sofreyr on January 11, 2010.