Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


a daily breath

  • at the time

    I took a few days away from my regular routine last week; unplanned but necessary.
        I didn’t even think about it, and I had been thinking too hard on what I had to do, or needed to do.
        It was valuable time. I didn’t even realize it at the time.
        My mind, my thoughts, had been spinning in all directions. I was, so to speak, directionless.
        I needed to find my direction.
        I needed to set my bearings.
        I’m not sure now I know exactly where I am going but, in taking time away, I have clearer thoughts on my purpose, or my perspective.
        It seems I have found my way without directly thinking about it.

    08/20/2023                                                                                              j.g.l.

  • cloud songs

        Searching for reasons.
           Why?
                 When?
       It is not finding the time,
         but finding
             the space. Physically,
    emotionally beyond a trace
    of the humanity you know
       is there and has been
       all along.
            Still you search.

    08/18/2023                                                                     j.g.l.

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Daylight slipping through the cracks

    above the curtains, a reminder of

    what kind of day it will be

    if you choose to let it in.

    The comfort of the night, once

    concealed in total darkness, now

    only a recent memory.

    Your circadian rhythm is already

    functioning on its own.

    It’s only natural. It is what it is, 

    any day but specifically today.

    Today matters.

    Dreams now safely tucked away,

    what will you do with the day?

    08/14/2023                                                                                      j.g.l.

  • on your own time

    Aren’t we all curious?

       We wake, we wonder…we wander.

       We never know what may be interesting or capture our imagination until it does, but shouldn’t we all be open to looking (or feeling) a little deeper?

       Breathe in what surrounds you, look around (often) throughout the day. What will capture your imagination?

       Your current plane of focus may not be what it was, but if you can see past what may have been an obstacle, you will find something else in your depth of field.

       Look beyond what is there.

       As the day moves at its own pace, attend to your interests on your own time. Sunrise to sunset, take advantage of the unexplored opportunities before you.

       Be grateful.

       Whether you search in the midday shadows or look up at the final few clouds dissipating into common darkness, there must be something.

       Be grateful not in finding it, but in looking for it.

    08/13/2023                                                                                                                                                        j.g.l.

  • cloud songs

        How can you know
    what another person
          is thinking
    when your own thoughts
    are as confusing
              as the day?

       How can you know
    what another human
          is feeling
             when
          those thoughts
                  get in the way?

    08/11/2023                                                                                       j.g.l.