The Birthday Party

She strove for excellence
As close to perfection as she could get with one week of preparation to execute.
Identifying appropriate recipes.
Acknowledgement that a sit down meal would not work with the number of guests.
Finger-food.
That would work as long as it was real food.
Beautiful, tasty, unique and easily carried and held in the hands.
Exotic, but not too spicy.
Or challenging to an unused palate.
Vegetables, aquatic and terrestrial meats.
Pre- prepared and warmed in the oven or quickly roasted on the BBQ.
Then dessert.
Not too heavy with  a rich chocolate Birthday cake to follow.
Fresh fruit.
Berries in season.
Drinks?
 People are welcome to bring their own.
An assortment of exotic fresh fruit punches.
Alcohol of various intensities.

This was what greeted us at the most thoughtfully prepared party I ever attended.
It was sublime food as mindful as analytic meditation.
And true art.