His words, before I even get to the poem he follows up with, make my mouth water. I want to rest in the grass tomorrow, weed the flowerbed which is becoming overgrown, and enjoy the day for what it is. To not check my email on my phone. To not stare at the computer screen. He mentions via negativa. That's the second time I've heard that phrase this week. In Carrie Brown's book The Last First Day (which I read this week and enjoyed very much---jotted down so many phrases) she has this quote..."Maybe it's sort of like the via negative, he said. Understanding a thing by understanding what it is not." (note: in this book she doesn't use quotation marks with her dialogue.....different)
Anyway, tomorrow I have nothing hanging fire. We'll have leftover spaghetti for dinner, and my mom is fine for the day. Besides, Thursdays are her busy days, and I'm not needed. She'll have therapists galore. Friday will be busy with taking a son to the dentist to get advice on wisdom tooth extractions, but Thursday is all mine. Schoolwork, yes, but even that will be easy to manage.
I want to drink in some solitude. To slow down my brain. Funny, but even a few years back we didn't talk about getting 'unplugged' and our only distraction was the television, and that was only in the evenings. Now with the ability to get online on a cell phone (which I can do on mine), we're constantly tempted to check things that are so unimportant. Just brain trash.
Maybe I can focus tomorrow on less.
