on labor day.
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“take rest. a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
— ovid
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art credit: whispers of the countryside, david dockery, watercolor
Sep2
Category Archives: rest
Mar19
off to the nunnery.
so off i go today
to the convent
where i’ll stay and meet up with
my sister and my aunt who is a sister
relax, talk, walk, meditate, share meals, laugh, cry, remember, tell stories
see her sacred and important places
shared spaces
if i was a nun
i imagine myself
singing and running through the hills
like sister maria in the alps
but i think this spring break
slow and easy
may be exactly perfect
a time of rest and renewal.
—
“get thee to a nunnery, go.”
– hamlet to ophelia (written by william shakespeare)
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photo credit: 20th century-fox studios, the sound of music, 1965
Dec16
break. (not my finger)
i’m on winter break
and i’d say that i’m most like
the accordian-playing raccoon on the tree stump
or
the twirling hedgehog in a forest-rave mindset.
and
later someone sleeping behind that tiny red tree door.
—
“the christmas season is upon us – a time for reading, dancing and all joyous festivities!”
credits: artwork by Eelen burch.
Nov23
on thanksgiving day.
“i would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
-gilbert k. chesterton
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art credit: karen davis, by frost and candlelight
Oct23
out cold.
(not me, but how we will both be spending the day. and i really like her blanket.)
blankets, soup, juice, meds, rest, repeat.
—
“i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived.”
-willa cather
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image credit: pinterest
Jan28
slow down.
“let your children see you slow down.
read a book, walk in the woods,
sip coffee in the early hours of the morning.
because when they grow up,
they’ll know how to slow down, too.”
-angela anaghost-repke
Jul8
no hurry, no worry.
floating down the river
ready for however long as it takes.
—
“rivers know this: there is no hurry.
we shall get there someday.”
-a. a. milne
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argo park, huron river, ann arbor, mi – summer 2019
Jan17
break.
friends take a break from recess
in the empty water table
while still waiting for some snow.
recess can be so exhausting.
—
“you never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.”
-bob hope
