A Time to Rest

Art: Mark Collins
https://markcollinsfineart.com/

Her beak, tucked under thick wing.

Her eyes, shut to daylight.

The spring-sweet magnolia and

hemlock boughs holding space.

~

We must give ourselves permission to rest,

to engage with the gentleness of spirit

that resides in that place between doing

and being. Softly. Shhhh. Quiet now.

Nothing is wrong. Let it alone. All of it.

You have already been there and made

your way here. Let quietude provide

cover and be your attentiveness.

Here is exhaustion’s antidote.

Here is blessed resilience.

Here is the imagination looking

out and looking in for that which

will restore the whole heartedness

necessary for your next rising.

I can promise you that there is something

alive in this black-lit void just waiting

for all of the other voices to fall silent so

that you will meet your next breath,

and love yourself again.

~

I didn’t disturb her, the owl.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From a book collaboration project with artist Mark Collins

A Time to Rest was exhibited in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson 

Art Museum’s 44^th annual Birds in Art show

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