I also ate dinner. Sit-down place; I had a salad. Condiments and sweeteners were on the table, including sugar packets with the lodge pictured on front. I saved one of those packets. Later that day, hen I was home again, I taped up the packet on an inconspicuous part of a wall in the kitchen, just above the counter.
It was an odd kind of flair, but I simply liked noticing it every once in a while. A pretty lodge in a lovely spot in a gorge that's made me gasp with its beauty -- beauty really nearby, and yet another reason I'm glad I live in Portland -- represented by a little packet of sugar. A packet which had certainly traveled plenty before even reaching me: wherever it was harvested to wherever it was packaged, shipped eventually to the lodge that stocked it, waiting for me.
Last night I finally removed the sugar packet from the wall, rubbed the packet so the sugar would be less clumpy, put the sugar in the tea, and soothed my throat post-shift at the call center.
That sugar finally -- finally -- reached the ending it was supposed to have. You've done well, my many-years granular companion.