Today is the first day of my two-week winter solstice sabbatical. As such, this should properly be a short piece, don't you think?
My theme for this year's sabbatical period is putting things down. How many of the burdens that I usually demand myself to carry can I put down? How will that feel? And what can I learn from the experience?
(Hypothesis: I might learn that I don't need to pick them up again. Or more accurately: I might begin to learn that when I set down a burden, whatever parts of it I later choose to pick back up have stopped being burdens.)