Today’s joy has been one of my favourites. It’s a pleasure I indulge in all year around
but in the busy month of December it gets promoted from pleasure to joy. It’s the joy of idleness.
I have been very busy from Friday onwards and yesterday
afternoon I became aware that I was getting very tired and my body aches. (Disability makes some things even harder
work than they would otherwise be.) So today I planned a day of doing very,
very little. I've just knitted and listened to an audiobook.
May I commend idleness to you? I realise that I may have provoked hollow
laughter but I still commend it.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me! Jx
ReplyDeleteThere are times when nothing else will do! x
ReplyDeleteI have finally reached a point in my life that I realize that having idle days one in awhile is absolutely necessary to good health -- physical and mental. In my younger years if I wasn't busy ALL the time I felt like I was shirking my duties -- now I know the duties will still be there awaiting me and that I owe it to myself to take care of myself. Good for you, Mary, an idle day -- a great gift to yourself!
ReplyDeleteOh, I hit publish too quickly -- I got a lovely envelope in the mail on Thursday! I haven't opened it yet as I want to share it with my family tomorrow but I wanted you to know it got here in one piece and intact! Thank you in advance!
ReplyDeleteI am able to indulge in idle days, but if there is something on my list to do, I feel guilty! I know occasional idleness is critical to balancing one's life.
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