mindful monday : stillness
Sometimes you just need to stop. Halt. Breathe.
That's where I am now.
Breathing. Halting. Hibernating.
I'm on sabbatical for a little while from Facebook and social media.
I'm contemplating my new orange desk, the one I wanted, the one I ordered, and the one I got delivered to my front porch yesterday. It is the color of clementines. I love it. My orange desk.
And I found the right color to paint the walls in my attic office as-yet-created: It is by Valspar, and it is not white as I imagined those walls might be, but "Stillness." Yes. Stillness.
That's where I am now. Not in the attic, but resting. In stillness. My 3x3x365 duties this week are kindly being handled by friends in New Jersey and Illinois and Nebraska and beyond. My Facebook profile is standing still except for automatic posts from my blogs. My Google+ and Twitter have ground to a halt. And I'm okay with that. My phone is unanswered. I need rest. And rest I am getting.
So, today, just a wee link to a radio interview with me that was recorded recently and that will play tonight (Oct 10th) at 7pm. I hope you'll listen in. I loved LOVED talking with Lesley Riley, the host of the show. She and I might do it again, and again.
I am heading back to bed. To read, perhaps. I have a large stack of books on my bedside table to read or re-read. You? What are you reading?
Reading is an amazing gift. Sleep is also good. It is not overrated, as it turns out.
Here's to more stillness in our lives, yours and mine.
[The gorgeous orange paperweight was a gift from glass artist, teacher, and songwriter Tamara Mangum Bailie.]
