The importance of rest

We need to rest the eyes, the mouth, the brain, the bones. Simply rest. LaurieT treated me to tea at the Chinese Garden today, and we rested our eyes on water lilies and lotuses, Koi and amber-colored dragon flies, beautifully pieced stone mosaics and red poems inscribed as Chinese characters on gray rocks. 

Alexis Gumbs, in her slim little book Undrowned (Ak Press, 2020), says that Pusa seals, after giving birth to their young, take a deep dive and remain in the depths for twice or even six times longer than usual. Some scientists theorize that maybe they are resting.

Gumbs goes on, “I wish for you the sacredness of rest, expansive sprawling rest uninterrupted…. You deserve to rest long enough to let whatever go.”