Refresh yourself, sister
With the water from the copper bowl with bits of ice in it –
Open your eyes under water, wash them –
Dry yourself with a rough towel and cast
A glance at a book you love.
In this way begin
A lovely and useful day.
– Bertolt Brecht, “Sister” from Do-it-Yourself Brecht Poem Toolkit
Notes: Photo: heather milazzo with Face Washing . Poem: Thank you Whiskey River.
Live & Learn 
Breathing a long sigh already, thanks…
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Yes. I’m on my way…
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a way to fully wake, though i prefer a more gentle sort of awakening –
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Early Sunday morning … read a book you love!!
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this is EXACTLY how I plan to spend my Sunday ~ I woke when I did (no alarm), am enjoying coffee, blogs and soon … new books ,…. Ahhh thank you 🙂 MJ
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excellent!
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sounds beautifully refreshing, but don’t think I could do the underwater with icecubes for my eyes…would be wonderful to dive into a pristine river or lake and wake up that way…
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I could have used this technique this morning after spending most of the day on a sailboat (lucky me) then the evening – till 1 am! at a benefit concert with peeps I went to high school (and the drummer was my prom date, to boot 😉 )
Was a tad… groggy… this morn!
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Nice!
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You paint a beautiful pic here! We spent the day in Paris from 8am to nr midnight and upon returning I realised that I had left one window open in our guest room….. NOT GOOD but at least refreshing! Shall now spend 2hrs or so on my poor worn out knees and rubbing bee-wax into those 100yrs old wooden parquet! 😉
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Left window open all day? Did this happen?
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OMG….. 🙂
no, we ‘just’ had a short but huge thunderstorm and the raindrops splattered across the whole room, and managed to spread to a diameter of an incredible 3m in every direction (which is the one thing I cannot understand, how can it rain to 3m BEHIND an open window…. and on our old floorboards?! Grrrrrmpf….
Tks for that complimenary giggle 🙂 🙂 🙂
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