"If you're exhausted, rest."
Today I followed Jeff Foster's admonition to rest.
I first saw his "Let Yourself Rest" on blog friend Peggy's blog Season-to-Season and the lines reached me and I printed it out.
But who has time to rest? This morning while dusting the books beside my reading chair in my bedroom as part of this week's attempt to use the Mt. Vernon cleaning method on my bedroom, I found the paper I'd printed out back in April.
I sat in my old reading chair and read...
"If you don't feel like starting a new project, don't...
"If you don't feel like talking, stay silent. If you're fed up with the news, turn it off. If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it."
And....
"If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today."
And so I put my feet up on the hassock and have done nothing.
The dishwasher swished along and the washing machine chugged and the dogs were let in and out and I moved from my bedroom to my office recliner but other than that, I've done nothing.
After a night of having woken up at midnight and not sleeping again until 4 a.m., this day of rest has been welcome.
No television, no music, no reading. Not even much thinking.
And it has been good.
"Time does not always need to be filled."
Thank you, Mr. Foster.
