How do we choose to travel?
What is reliable in the rain?
What is our ultimate destination,
for this time, this journey, or
this day?
We move at the speed of life.
Depending on traffic, others
may chose to follow your path,
but not your direction.
© 2021 j.g. lewis
A little cold, little wet,
a little tired and yet
I am here. Still,
full of wonder.
The morning chill leaves
little to the imagination
and much less
to hope for.
Expected, perhaps, as it
always is, this time, this
season is only what
we ask of it.
11/21/2024 j.g.l.
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.
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.
Today is a civic holiday Monday in Ontario. Family Day, a three-day weekend; a welcome break.
There’s not a lot going on with all this pandemic stuff, and there is little to celebrate, but a day off is a day off.
I’m taking it.
I’ve got nothing planned and no excuses for it.
Yes, I’ve got plenty of work that I could do, and a desk that needs to be sorted, and several projects in various states of undress with pressure, or guilt, attached to each one. Yet, today, I’m not getting caught up in any of that.
I’m simply going to relax.
I can do that, I just normally don’t.
Regularly, given a free day or statutory holiday, I’ll make plans to do something creative or otherwise, and I’ll hunker down at the laptop, turn my attention to a manuscript, and fill my day word by word.
Usually it is satisfying, but often it doesn’t give me the break I need.
We all need to take a break now and then; it’s good for the self.
It is good for the soul.
Unscheduled time is a rarity in an era of busy. Find it when you can, take it as you will, but make sure you take the day.
No excuses.
02/15/2021 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.