Friends,
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Here’s a poem I recently wrote called On Afternoons Like This, reflecting on one of my favorite times of the day: afternoon rest time. If you’d like to hear a recording of me reading the poem, click the audio player above. Hope you enjoy it.
On afternoons like this one,
I trace the lines of our one-hour rest time,
wondering how much
it will stretch past us.
I wonder if rest is an enigma
or the most simple thing we
embody as humans.
We might nap,
the kids building with LEGO bricks
while listening to that audiobook
for the hundredth time.
We might wait here in bed,
letting the sheets and blankets
get warmer, letting
the sunlight slip slowly
across the window’s curtains.
We might drink one last
cup of coffee,
naming our dreams
again and again.
One hour, and we’ve
drawn a shape
that may not make sense
to anyone but us.
It is the shape of a bird in flight,
of a house held still,
of a beautiful child
dancing in sunlight.
It is the shape of God or
God’s breath,
the shape of nothing
and everything.
It is the shape of us,
what we needed
in the stillness and space,
what we needed
when all the world
went quiet around us.
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Onward, friends.
On Afternoons Like This