In the soft afternoon sunshine, I could see a gathering around the grave and clods of earth flying, and hear the mountain air carry the plangent songs of mourning.
Another family I've been friends with for 20 years has other plans, and I could host a gathering at my place, and while I love to entertain I'm just not in the mood.
Thanks to my colleagues, I was talked off that ledge and instead went to a more civilized, albeit still crunk, gathering where I could move my hips in the comfort of a V.I.P area.
The shopping experience had been very difficult, simply because the very idea of gathering everything I could possibly eat for a week at $31.50 for myself was both daunting and stressful, particularly because the press with cameras, other religious representatives, and Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton from D.C. were shopping at the same time.
"But I felt that for a smaller gathering I could live with the conflict, and would fully understand if anyone could not attend".
It was a way of pushing away the nerves, and it felt good, but still I could feel the tension gathering in my shoulders.
I could definitely envision a gathering of loved ones, some family and close friends, at a dinner or something like it, but I am not interested in spending thousands of dollars to host a wedding ceremony.
I think if I were going to run a studio I'd just be gathering the best filmmakers I could find and sort of let them do their thing within certain economic parameters.
I was lost and confused and I needed help gathering my thoughts so I could make the decision that would be right for me.
A buzz of activity ran through the plane; people began waking up and gathering their things, and I couldn't help but feel excited along with them.
My Mexican cultural education might have consisted of those few things – family gatherings where I couldn't understand people, the tamales that my grandma made at Christmas, the Little Joe albums that my mom sometimes played.
