{"id":3970,"date":"2021-05-14T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:11:23","slug":"and-this-day-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"and this day, to you…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Friday with copious amounts of sunshine 
has ME<\/em>  
written all over it 
I don\u2019t 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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the garden is glorious\u00a0
I sit with the buzzing of bees, and a couple of fish\u00a0
watch the toads come and go\u00a0\u00a0
at the pond\u00a0
an early butterfly\u00a0
I call to the cardinal, and he echoes\u00a0
the song\u00a0
having already been for a morning walk
with my love\u00a0
he is off, while I\u00a0
relish a leisurely sit outside,\u00a0dog at my feet\u00a0
with coffee and my book,\u00a0\u00a0
until I have contentedly
finished\u00a0
both\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

think again of my own kinds of stories
and just how and when  
they will be told <\/p>\n\n\n\n

good too, in that now
I will choose
another
to-be-read<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am today, peaceful and 
grateful 
for all things 
that buoy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

always, I am grateful for  
this life 
and this Love 
 
and tomorrow…  (if you\u2019re still with me) 
tomorrow, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get my vaccine \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Friday with copious amounts of sunshine has ME  written all over it I don\u2019t 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…
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