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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