say yes

I’m leaving for New York tomorrow. Eight days without my home, without J. or my bike or the cats or her dog. We are going to baptize my sister’s son in the church she and I and our mother and our mother’s mother were baptized in.

I haven’t been to church since I was a child. I kept asking J. what I should wear, and she was amazingly sweet and helped me find a dress and cardigan at a thrift store on Devon. I am 90% certain that I will look appropriate, and, despite what my friend Alex claims, pretty much entirely certain that I won’t actually burst into flames in the doorway.