Sunday, June 26, 2022

Elucubrate

The street below my window is hushed.

Inky darkness blurs the view.

It is so late that I do better to be in bed than at the keyboard.

Yet. 

Yet, time runs short. 

Midnight oil burns at 11:09.

Wee tyre the night in thought; the day in toyle.











Creating Space: Three Months for Showing Up for What's Showing Up is a daily writing practice. Turns out that a lot of this writing explores the landscape of grief. My mother died shortly before I began, and this is what's on my mind most of the time.

Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.



Quotation from Frances Quarles, Emblemes, 1635. (the first printed reference to the midnight oil)



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