Author: its simple IF you ignore the complexity

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Crossposted from MyLeftWing where Sabbath Time is a regular weekly series.  Given the stresses of this past week,  I’m hoping my friends on other sites will find the approach helpful.

I’m tired,
tired of playing the game,
ain’t it a crying shame?
I’m so tired,
God dammit I’m tired!

– Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn, in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles)

It’s been another hell of a week.  DeLay indicted, Frist investigated, Robert’s confirmed, Miller cuts a deal, Obama posts on dKos and reactions abound.  One thing is clear to me –  around the leftie blogosphere – we’re tired.

Armando posted about it.  Raybin said GBCW on dKos and MLW .  Numerous other examples of people who are holding onto the last bit of their rope.  I think we’re working so hard, fighting so hard for what we believe, and have seen so many setbacks that even the victories ring hollow – we’re sure it will turn out bad – somehow they’ll weasel out of it yet again…

We need to find ways to rest.

To avoid burnout, to recharge. I think one way is to once again embrace the concept of Sabbath time.  As I wrote in the first installment of this series on MyLeftWing …

Sabbath, obviously, has a religious meaning. But is is much more than that.  In his book “Sabbath” author Wayne Muller says:

All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking activity and our bodies need for sleep.  There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea. In our bodies, the heart perceptibly rests after each life giving beat; the lungs rest between exhale and inhale.

We have lost this essential rhythm. Our culture invariably supposes that action and accomplishment are better than rest…  

If that speaks to you, follow me after the jump for a place of rest, relaxation.  This is a cool place.

Take a deep breath, hear music that is restful to you, put on some tea or cocoa, pull up a comfortable chair and enjoy the company of friends. This is a place to feed the wolf of peace, to  sharpen your blade – and refill your cup.

It is good that we are together this Sabbath time , I’m glad you’re here – what do you have to share today?

This afternoon I got an email from MassEquality. Haven’t seen this noted on Booman yet...