I have not been feeling well these last few days. I don’t often fall ill but when I do, it does seem to knock me about a bit.
In a sense, I feel I set myself up semi-consciously for this! I knew that it was not the healthiest thing for me to keep going the way I was – late nights, usually turning in just before or after sunrise and starting again early the following day. Hardly stopping for a rest and then only to take my dog for a walk. Oh yes, a bit of television here and there, meals cooked and eaten but that was about it. And after all that, it would seem I don’t have a lot to show for it.
Illness is the means by which ‘business as usual’ is interrupted. If we don’t voluntarily make the necessary changes, falling ill will certainly demand that changes are made. So, I have been getting more sleep, I have been spending less time at my computer and I have been enjoying more time in my garden.
The last is not a difficult thing to do especially as we have just entered autumn and one of my simply joys is watching gold leaves drift purposefully toward the ground. That’s a bit of an oxymoron, isn’t it – ‘drift purposefully’. Ah well, here’s a poem I wrote some years ago about my favorite season of the year:
These days of autumn
The days of autumn are splendid
in a quiet sort of way
No less the splendour of the Almighty
No less the stillness of her sleep
These days of autumn
fill my heart with restfulness
Lulling it into its quietude
amidst the golden glory of the sun
The days of autumn burn kisses
of love in slow moments
revealing my soul’s secrets
in the warm light breaking through the cold
And when these days of autumn
submit to winter’s stony silence
and aching presence
I shall carry their splendor
into my soul’s abode
to keep me warm and well.
© Lucy Lopez 2004-2009
Lucy Lopez
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