#10 - Food, Beer, and Bonfire

I have learned to be a girl of simple pleasures.
There is a simple sort of joy that the frightful pace
of the 21st century still can't capture in the peacefulness
of cracking open a beer on your front porch.

Perhaps it is simply my Southern upbringing,
but I have learned to truly capture the soul of a family
with the heartbeat that resides in the kitchen
of the comfort food that is fried everything.

Most importantly, I have learned to love
the camaraderie of my network; built
wedding cake style, tied together
with wires and stacked together with kinship
and built characters - and characters to boot -
that is my beloved Aggie bonfire.