Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


a daily breath

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Admitting that it is Monday is actually confessing that your weekend has come to an end.

    I really don’t mind Mondays; if fact most weeks I like that fact that we can start all over again. Today, a little less so. 

    I’m not quite ready to snuff this break out.

    To say the past weekend was enjoyable is not enough. How else can you describe a few days in Montreal?

    Perhaps très magnifique? It seemed like more. 

    A quiet boutique hotel, galleries galore, art is everywhere.

    Montreal is a very walkable city, and walk we did. Everywhere.

    We witnessed the eras of architecture; historical places of prominence, and we walked through neighbourhoods and felt the communities.

    I need not mention the food was amazing. Every bite.

    It was with my deep dark coffee at breakfast, and another croissant, that I could feel the weekend running out. When I dropped a handful of postcards to loved ones into the Canada Post box with the Leonard Cohen illustration on the side (how Quebecois can you get?) on the way to catch my train home that I realized my weekend was, in fact done.

    Now, today is the first day leading to next weekend’s adventures.

     

    05/27/2024                                                                           j.g.l.

  • the days ahead

    Pack lightly. 

    Carry with you only what is required.

    Leave space for memories, or souvenirs, of the days ahead.

    Enthusiasm permits you to turn a planned trip into a true adventure.

    What you will see is nothing compared to what you will feel.

    Don’t forget your camera.

    05/24/2024                                                                                    j.g.l.

  • viewpoint

    Vision obscured by common occurrence, perhaps appearing disparate today, yet  always hope for an alternate perspective.  Hardly a coincidence, isolation may  principally compound its influence or  allow you to seek a different viewpoint. Take notice, observation provides clarity.

    05/21/2024                                                                                      j.g.l.

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    There.

     

    Sit, quietly and comfortably, where you are.

     

    Acknowledge the gradient nature of progress as it happens with the shades of past days inflecting a presence we don’t often respect.

     

    Take your time.

     

    Feel. Where you are.

     

    At the intersection of faith and contentment you will gradually find your way.

     

    Think about it.

     

    Set your intentions.

     

    Now rise, slowly and purposefully.

     

    Look up, not only with your eyes but with your neck engaged in mindful movement.

     

    Release the stiffness in your bones, allow energy to radiate from the spaces between.

     

    Let the weight on your shoulders dissipate as you allow the arms to simply hang as if they are not even there.

     

    Inhale. Exhale.

     

    Each breath is as important as the next.

     

    Breathe.

     

    Exercise thankfulness, first and foremost to your self and the effort you have just expended.

     

    Hold that thought.

     

    You have already begun to experience the day.

     

    Gratitude will follow with your next steps.

     

    Share that feeling.

     

    Enjoy this day.

     

     

     

    05/20/2024                                                                        j.g.l.

  • cloud songs

          As it is and will be 
    for the foreseeable future, there is 
    only what remains behind the disguise.
       As natural as it has been, as
       astonishing as it occasionally seems, 
       we can only hope it will get better.
         Why is it we allow optimism 
         to dislimn all that is?
              Hope casts a lengthy shadow.
     

    05/17/2024                                                                                j.g.l.