Awaiting a Beautiful Young Lady at the Lebanese Taverna in Silver Spring, MD

What matters is to be natural and calm in happiness and in unhappiness.
Alherto Caeiro

Sitting at my small white wooden table in a corner close to the large glass window in the not too busy Lebanese Taverna in the middle of downtown Silver Spring, MD

After first having ordered one of my favorite dishes — -a grilled Chicken kabob with an extra small tasty side salad

It is a mid-April afternoon, the weather is slowly starting to turn warmer and warmer, after a brutally long, cold, and infuriating Winter, in this part of the United States of North America

All different kinds of people are slowly walking past the restaurant outside, busily enjoying the nice weather on this quite warm afternoon

And, in the process, they are continually shedding more and more of their excess thick winter clothing

Contrary to most of the trees in nature that at the very same time, are increasingly happily pulling on their first pairs of bright green clothes over their empty dark and brown winter branches

While I am inside waiting on a beautiful young lady, who I am slowly getting to know better and better

I had just recently broken up with my last girlfriend because she had strongly come to feel I was

spending way too much time being consumed by my writing, and simply not enough time with her

Still, life is certainly not too bad right now, to say the least with the also eagerly-longed for warm summer months, now clearly finally on their way in Silver Spring.

©Gregory Gilbert Gumbs