A Million Little Ways by Freeman Emily P

Author:Freeman, Emily P. [Freeman, Emily P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441244734
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Listen to Your Tuesdays

Tuesday is the most sensible day of the week. Monday has the heavy job of shouldering the blame for the world’s bad mood. Sunday is all slow-cooked rest, Wednesday cheers us on with a halfway banner, and Thursday, aside from being the best night for TV, is basically a bright green arrow to the weekend. Is it even necessary to bring up the weekend days? How they play carefree, plan parties, host celebrations, and fancy nights out? Weekend days are lazy and spontaneous and gather up with friends and family.

But for all the ways I try to picture him differently, Tuesday is a perfectly ordinary, no-fuss, introverted day.

No one says, “Thank God it’s Tuesday!”

But there is something ordinary about Tuesday that attracts me.

Maybe it’s a different day for you, but consider what this ordinary day represents. Here is where you keep time, in this home with these people and this skin on. Here is the leftover chicken soup in the fridge, the grout in the bathroom that won’t come clean, your favorite corner of the sofa. Here, on this ordinary Tuesday, is where we learn to be human.

This is how we live. This is what we eat. This is where we planted the tulip bulbs with a soup spoon in November and watched them bloom in spring. This table holds the memories of a thousand dinner stories, these chairs wear the stains of their jelly and Play-Doh hands. This house was made a home the first night we slept here, the night I cried because the windows had no coverings and neither did my heart.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. We live and die, age beautifully or full of wrinkles. We wake in the morning, buy yellow cheese, and hope we have enough money to pay for it. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.[6]

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

When we resist living within our ordinary days, we are in danger of losing a sense of ourselves. We don’t need to walk away from our routines and daily rhythms to find something more interesting. More often we need to wake up to them. Hold the minutes of Tuesday morning in your hand, turn them over with the local paper, carry them into the office, the cafeteria, the studio.

This is where you live and where your people live.

This is the house of God.

Thank God it’s Tuesday.

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