The answers are far less certain
than even last week, to all those
perennial questions or solutions
you might seek.
What do you believe, or
what do you believe in?
Come Monday, you have fewer
questions than you had last week.
For a while there are less doubts
in what you believe.
Whom do you believe in,
and who believes in you?
11/18/2024 j.g.l.
We want to know what
we don’t know, or hadn’t thought of,
or forgot.
What mattered then,
or what mattered when, shifts over time.
We notice.
Perception is what you don’t see.
Deception is what know.
You see it differently through your aloneness.
The truth behind a lie,
you question how and why.
It made sense.
Anticipation keeps us waiting
for only so long. Will it matter
if you felt it never did?
© 2021 j.g. lewis
Slow down: even with the ideas that come to quicky. Take the time to acknowledge the feelings that arrive, as they arrive.
Write it down. How else will you remember what you were thinking?
Print neatly. You hardly understand the thoughts at the time, why make it more difficult to comprehend weeks or years from now?
Follow your own logic; only you need to truly make sense of what is happening, or all that has happened.
Pay attention to the lessons of the past. Be mindful that not all are worth repeating.
Clarity. Make corrections as you go. Flaws become more difficult to correct the longer you live with them.
11/14/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
I bought myself a new pair of pyjamas last week, a great deal in one of the big post-Christmas sales. A gift to myself, you might say.
I love pyjamas, and have since I used to wear those jersey knit Star Trek-style togs as a kid. I always found them comfortable.
When you were younger, donning your p-jays was an expected, even anticipated. part of getting ready for bed.
It was something you just did, or were told to do, or got in the habit of doing. Getting ready for bed marked the end of the day.
It made sense; you got up and dressed for school why wouldn’t you dress for sleep?
Maybe it began in our teenage years that we began wearing less and less clothing to bed. It was a little more casual, and maybe it was more liberating, but was it as comfortable (or as purposeful) as a soft pair of pyjamas?
Not even close.
The act of getting ready for bed is good for the soul. It is more than symbolic. When you change into pyjamas, you signal the mind and body that you are ready for sleep. You mentally prepare yourself for comfort.
You get better sleep when you prepare yourself for it. You spend a third of your life in bed, should you not be comfortable?
New pyjamas do it every time.
01/06/2020 j.g.l.
I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.