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Day of Rest - Maya Angelou - Time to get off the Merry-Go-Round

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. 

Maya Angelou from Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now



Today is my one day off from work.  It has been so crazy there that I didn't do my normal practice and plan something to do on my "weekend," something to look forward to doing.  A reward is missing. 

So I am puttering around the house.  Maybe make dinner - no, I'd need to go shopping.  Maybe start a new project - no, not enough energy.  Oh crap:  I need to iron.  Okay - at least that is productive.  I haven't made an entry on the blog - EUREKA, I can blog.

I look up quotes about Resting.  Yeah, lots of quotes about "if you take care of the little things, the REST will take care of itself."  CRUD! More reminders about all the stuff I have to do.  And the mind starts racing.

Then I find this quote.  I haven't picked a second quote from a person yet but I this one is telling me that I am okay to think I can just rest.  I need to rest.  It allows me to justify my rest.  Brillant Maya.  So today I am resting.  And because the world just doesn't stop on one's day of rest, iron and a load of laundry because the world might survive without me but it won't survive with me in wrinkled shirts.
  


Gratitudes:  Google Podcast, frozen food for breakfast, comfortable beds.
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