hello friends, wally here. decided rather than telling you all about my adventures, i would share lyrics from a great song by Gunnarolla titled “I Took a Nap” that captures my day…here we go: “I had a lot of things to do today / But you know what I did instead / I took a nap / It was a very good nap / That email / I took a nap / Zoom call / I took a nap / What about your lunch plan / I (ate lunch then) took a nap / House chores / I took a nap / Home workout? / I took a nap / Bath time? / I took a nap… / I woke up from the nap to get things done / But you know what I did instead / I took a nap / It was a very good nap…..” have a great sunday. Wally.
Wally’s Great Adventures (58 – VOLUME UP – I had a lot of things to do today but…)
March 19, 2023 by 24 Comments
Inemuri in a box. Absolutely Not.
July 19, 2022 by 25 Comments
Notes:
- Nap box via Bloomberg Close, July 15, 2022. Absolutely not for me. Like a Flamingo? Ha!
- Pink Flamingo’s sleeping, Camargue, Provence, France by Frank Eiffert, via Unsplash.
Lightly Child, Lightly
April 14, 2022 by 32 Comments
I’m tired.
I want to build a cushion nest in a space under one of the windows where there’s a patch of sunlight and go to sleep.
— Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing
Notes:
- Photo: DK of Sully taking a nap in sunlight. (Wed, April 13, 2022)
- Sully background…
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Saturday Afternoon
August 21, 2021 by 26 Comments
Notes:
- Nap Time! Sully fast asleep. Head strategically placed on top of the air conditioning vent. (Thank you Susan for Photo)
- Background on Sully here.
Saturday Afternoon
January 30, 2021 by 63 Comments
Sully visiting this weekend. (Feels like 10° F outside)
Sunday Afternoon
October 18, 2020 by 26 Comments
It felt as if one’s entire world was one, long Sunday afternoon. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go.
Photo: Eric Kanigan of Sully and me. More on our Sully here and here and here.
Saturday Morning
August 17, 2019 by 29 Comments
Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment
when, nothing
happens
no what-have-I-to-do-today-list
maybe half a moment
the rush of traffic stops.
The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be
slows to silence,
the white cotton curtains hanging still.
~ Marie Howe, “The Moment” (via Poets.org)
Photo: Eylül Aslan
Saturday is for…
June 1, 2019 by 22 Comments
Saturday Morning
April 6, 2019 by 63 Comments
We’re so driven to make ourselves “better” all the time…
We are mercilessly hard on ourselves for our losses, our defeats, our wounds, our failures, the parts of us that don’t measure up.
This is a weekend in non-self-improvement….
~ Francis Weller, in an interview with Tim McKee titled The Geography Of Sorrow. Francis Weller On Navigating Our Losses
Photo: Nap time by Aku*S
Saturday Morning
January 26, 2019 by 39 Comments
She likes it best when everything is very, very quiet.
~ Linn Ullmann, ”Unquiet: A Novel” (W. W. Norton & Company, January 15, 2019)
Saturday Morning
January 12, 2019 by 12 Comments
It is time to just go into a cocoon
and spin your soul.
~ Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?: A Novel
Photo: Chelsea
Saturday Afternoon
October 20, 2018 by 25 Comments
I went to the kitchen to start making lunch, but no sooner had I picked up a knife than I realized I was no longer ravenously hungry. Instead, I was very sleepy. I got a blanket, stretched out on the living room sofa, and promptly drifted off. I had a dream, a short one. It was clear and very vivid. But I couldn’t remember anything about it. Just that it was clear and vivid. It felt as though a fragment of real life had slipped into my sleeping mind by mistake. Then the moment I awoke, it fled like a quick-footed animal, leaving no trace behind.
~ Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore: A Novel. (October 9, 2018)
Photo: Yourtango
Saturday Noon
March 3, 2018 by 8 Comments
the hour of twelve noon
And so you feel
your hair caught up in the sun’s fingers
holding you free in the light and the wind.
~ Yiannis Ritsos, from “Summer,” in Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses
Notes: Poem via the distance between two doors. Photo: Alexander Kozhevnikov (via see more)
T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week
January 20, 2017 by 14 Comments
Polar bear Wolodja takes a nap in its enclosure at the Berlin Tierpark zoo in Germany.
Rest Wolodja, rest.
Source: The Washington Post, (Maurizio Gambarini/dpa via AP; Jan. 8, 2017)
Saturday Morning. Tasting it fully.
December 19, 2015 by 10 Comments
Without the interruptions,
nourishing and maddening,
this life would become arid.
Yet I taste it fully only
when I am alone here and
“the house and I resume old conversations.”
~ May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude: The Journals of Mary Sarton
Source: Photograph – exercice de style
Saturday Morning
November 14, 2015 by 5 Comments
Maybe
it’s like the elders say:
‘Ajurtnarmat.’
Nothing to be done.”
~ Tagak Curley, “The Nation“
Sources: Photo by mennyfox55. Quote – Schonwieder
Saturday Morning
November 7, 2015 by 16 Comments
I want to believe that
even though the world’s edges have become harder,
I maybe be able to find a warm, soft place in it.
~ Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages
Quote: Quotes From Books
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