Take time off.
I think of that possibility and it feels like not existing.
The work I do requires me to always be vigilant. That's such a fancy word. But it seems to fit.
It is now a time when I am in my other place I go, a place of family, one I can be in at certain times. Today I took a train between my home and here in Pennsylvania. The journey between did not mean I escaped the thunderstorm that came through today.
Heat and tension eventually give way to change as storms break when conditions shift in just the right way. For most of us, the variables are too complex to track until the lightning hits.
And then what?
Even time off is still time alive.
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