Being Idle and Blessed; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 20, no. 34

 

Being Idle and Blessed

 

It has taken me lo! these many years

to learn to be idle.

And now, in the blessed life

that idleness gives me—

cradled in the humid warmth of this

     ceaseless summer—

I adjust myself to the peace of idleness.

 

Sometimes I forget.

If I find calendar squares marked

with Things To Do

I apply my energies to winnowing

those people to see, places to go,

erstwhile delights

that I now grudgingly incorporate

into my life of idleness.

I live a delicate balance

of putting nose to rose

while soaking in the heat of the week.

And still I must admit a pride of accomplishment

when I mend with embroidery the hole in the left knee

of my thirty-year-old blue jeans.

To do.

Not to do.

 

 

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