Self Care – Stephanie Springborn

The Pets of the Bungalow

Wally is recovering from his surgery and teaching me a few things.

I am a soft person, but I feel a need to attack my goals. 2023. Dare I say, “May the attack be with you?”

I had not been sick like this…I haven’t had a day like this since 1978. Or was it 1987?

No multi-tasking except for moments when I fried bacon while reading a presidential autobiography.

First, start with time. Not as a habit because a person won’t do it. Make time a gift to yourself. Do it now.

In a world of stock markets and business results, the power of romantic self-awareness..

When I read, at home in the woods…

The concept of rest, I think, is the mental jump in the kaleidoscope of fallen leaves..

Up ahead lie my lake of ghosts and memories. “Papa,” I whispered into the lake’s breeze.

And my foot stepped to the end of the point, my toe reached behind to swivel back…