If you need me today, I’ll be in this chair: legs thrown over the side, disheveled, peaceful. Reading, sipping tea, staring out open windows. Living life with the timer off. Collecting quotes, not thinking, blissfully unaware. Ruffling doggie ears, painting my toe nails, napping. Tomorrow, I’ll be back. Ready to jump into the fray. But that is in the future and today, today, is about the now.

A great place for solitude.

• “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”-Albert Camus, The Minotaur
• “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”-Jean-Paul Sartre

Thank you to the lovely Vickie Lester, for reminding me that I do not need permission or justification for taking some alone time.