Activities room

They were getting ready to sing "O Come All Ye Faithful" when I showed up this morning. Max, the activities director, had distributed porcelain bells to a favored few, and I was happy to see that May was one of them. She was poised, bell at the ready, but suddenly everyone was calling her name and pointing toward me. She looked up and smiled, and searched for someone to take her bell.

We sat on the bench outside the activities room and she asked me what I had been doing.