A Friday with copious amounts of sunshine
has ME
written all over it
I don’t happen to work on Fridays, and I
in my infinite wisdom
have declared this the day of the week
when, if it can at all be helped… I do not
do
I do not have to do this,
I do not have to do that,
I fully and completely allow myself the luxury
of wasting away my minutes
in contented
idle-ness
wandering, words in my head
talking out loud
to
myself
the garden is glorious
I sit with the buzzing of bees, and a couple of fish
watch the toads come and go
at the pond
an early butterfly
I call to the cardinal, and he echoes
the song
having already been for a morning walk
with my love
he is off, while I
relish a leisurely sit outside, dog at my feet
with coffee and my book,
until I have contentedly
finished
both
a wonderful thing, I think
finishing a good book
by an author I am coming to like
so very
much
the stuff of life and
love
the strange, sometimes strained
dichotomies of
both
and how it is we sort out our own
stories, as such
a good book also in how it stays with me
how after I have finished,
I will turn back a few chapters
search out again bits of the story
read, and re-read
then read once again
flip to where I have placed a small scrap of paper
scan for something that needed
noting
good, in how I will wander the garden
in thoughts still relating
in words
that mattered
think again of my own kinds of stories
and just how and when
they will be told
good too, in that now
I will choose
another
to-be-read
today as well, I can smell the lilacs
with every breath
where somehow because of allergies, or hormones
(definitely not because of the covid)
my sense of smell, once so keen
has been impaired
untrustworthy at best
but this day… allows in
the sweetest
perfume
I am today, peaceful and
grateful
for all things
that buoy
turtles this morning, sat sunning on logs
red winged blackbirds, a king fisher
of course, flowers and trees
and spaces to roam
I am grateful for writers and readers
thinkers and wonder-ers
like me,
I am grateful for a book shelf
with no end
and for a
quiet place to
be
I am grateful for kindness,
as well as every possibility
for a new day
always, I am grateful for
this life
and this Love
and tomorrow… (if you’re still with me)
tomorrow,
I get my vaccine ♥