Recipe for a Monday That Won't Stay Still
Ingredients:
1 alarm, set too early, ringing into a body still warm from sleep
14,854 steps (measured, though no one asked)
A handful of strategies, lightly crushed
One child's voice saying goodnight, said twice because the first time you weren't listening
Clouds, to taste
Method:
Wake before the day has decided what it wants to be.
Move through rooms that expect things of you.
Count nothing. Count everything.
Smudge the boundary between professional and prayer.
When evening comes, kneel at the smallest bed in the house
and say the words back.
Let cool overnight.
Serves no one and everyone.