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Between Our Steps: Resting as a Verb
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Between Our Steps: Resting as a Verb

Rest involves stillness, and stillness is difficult to achieve.

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Sep 10, 2024
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How do you know when you are tired (and I mean this as a real question for you, the reader, to ponder)? I don’t just mean sleepy—a yawn and drooping eyelids tell you that. But how do you know when you are emotionally worn out?

For me, it’s a lack of desire to do anything. I normally have three pro…

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Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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