While the peas are shelled
A pile of pea pods sits between two people. One bowl for the peas, another for the empty shells. Someone opens a pod with a thumb and begins talking about a neighbour from years ago.
There is no need to keep looking at each other. The hands have something to do. A pause can last a little longer without anyone rushing to fill it.
Sometimes a direct question gets a short answer. Sitting together over a small kitchen task gives a story room to arrive in its own order — a name, a remembered lane, then the part nobody had heard before.
Who in your family talks more freely when you are doing a small chore together?
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