Out in the city. Sun is shining today and crisp wind is blowing. There are things happening. People picnicking in parks. Children are visiting the zoo. Nails are being painted. Plans are being made. There is lots of socializing in book stores. Meals in restaurants. Movie theatres are buzzing with activity. It's the weekend. Saturday. People will dance and imbibe tonight. Couples will want to make love. Friends will delight in each others company. School kids will get the crazy laugh together over nothing and remember the feeling forever. Dog's are getting long walks and cuddles. Old men are playing chess. Cooks are smoking in the back ally and thinking of their girlfriends. People are screaming on roller coasters. Trips to Hawaii are being planned. Chicken is sizzling on an outdoor grill while music is softly playing. Little league players are hitting home runs. The barometric pressure of the coming rain has unwittingly enhanced golf swings all over the city. Plans are being kept. Gas tanks are being filled. New shipments of merchandise are being unpacked. Athletes are training and sweating. Magazines are being read and bought in grocery lines. Photographs are being taken. New clothes are being bought. People are working hard. People are playing hard. Lashes are being tinted. Ladies are talking quickly. Exercise classes are full. Kids are being driven to their friends houses. Men are going to put air in their wives tires. Food is being bought from several different specialty stores in preparation for fancy dinners. Steam is scenting the air with coffee. Baked goods are sitting on display behind shiny glass windows. Everything is happening right now. Everything imaginable.
People will walk briskly as the bright sunlight warms their cheeks and the winter wind quickens their step. They will check their watches. They will run out of time. they will be late. Milk will get forgotten. The salad will be ignored. Little girls will call other little girls names under the slide away from their watchful parents eyes and then hiss that if they told they would never be friends again. He will text another girl as he holds your hand while you read the article he showed you. A girl will ignore her friends call because she wants to lie later and say she forgot instead of say that she found something better to do. There will be fighting in bars before noon. A mother will drive her son to the movies with his first date while she thinks of ways to get another prescription filled. Someone will forget to feed their turtle. A girl will get her period at Magic mountain. A woman will decide to end an affair with a wonderful man because he isn't ready to embrace her children. Someone will trip and end up breaking their wrist badly. A doctor will make a very difficult decision. Childbirth will get intervened with unnecessarily. Hurtful words will lash out. A car will break down in the middle of an intersection. A dentist will chip his own tooth accidentally. A man will lose his expensive watch and it will remain in his car for over a year. An older woman will get stood up. Everything will happen. Everything imaginable
I will stay home today. I will rest. Drink clean water. Sit and follow my thought patterns and return to breath in thirty minute increments. I will do some writing. I will read a bit- not too much. I will light my incense and sage and sweet grass. I will light several candles even though it is still light out. I will make cashew lavender honey ice cream and vegetarian lasagna for myself alone. I will take a warm bath. Watch a movie. A comedy. I will drink coffee for a while then switch to tea. I will go outside to my garden and gather fresh mint for later. I will tend my home. Pick it up and keep it clean. I will bring out my favorite quilts today and wrap myself up in them. I may cry a little. I will listen to some of my favorite music. I will cuddle my dog and tell him tender things. I may fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon for a while. I will lay outside and listen to the wind in the palm trees across the street. I will luxuriate in my big bed and have books and highlighters and writing strewn about me. I will light the fireplace just after dark and massage sweet smelling oils into my skin. I will deeply stretch my muscles. I will sit in silence. I can hear planes going by out there. I will not do too much daydreaming but stay in my body with myself right here, right now, in my home. I will stay home today.
absolutely beautiful :) it makes me look forward to tomorrow....
Posted by: Peggy | Feb 18, 2012 at 11:04 PM
Uh, can I come over?
Posted by: willheim | Feb 18, 2012 at 03:59 PM