Sometimes I don’t know when to stop. I don’t know when to stop talking. I don’t know when to stop doing. I don’t know when to stop trying, thinking, and figuring. I just don’t know when to stop.

That’s when I know it’s time to do nothing. It’s time to sit on the floor and withdraw to the bare minimum of what must be done to sustain me and my life. In this moment all I have to do in order to live is breathe.

And if I breathe deeper, I can extend my smile, unwrinkle my brow, hear the air conditioner kick on and off. I can hear the crickets calling out from their invisible places in the grass, trees, and shrubs. I can hear and feel the pulse of my own heartbeat. I can be without doing, fixing, striving, or working at it. I can be. Just be.

-Radiance Writer

June 16, 2022

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