The Measure of a Day

I was reading an article in Taproot magazine today about soil. It was an engaging story about how the author needed to spend some time digging, planting, transplanting - connecting herself to the earth - each day in order to be the writer she is. While I really enjoyed the whole piece, it was the final paragraph that lodged itself in my brain for the rest of the day.


"...we must begin by embracing what it means to be fully human. This means spending a few hours resting, a few hours playing, a few hours creating, a few hours teaching, a few hours learning, a few hours nourishing our bodies...a few hours tending the soil and connecting with ourselves..." 
~Shannon Hayes, "Cultivating the Rich Soil of Our Lives", Taproot Issue 1 :: Soil


Now that's a to do list I can embrace! I found myself holding my day up to this quote as I went about the laziness of this particular Sunday. Today measured up quite nicely. Not all my days would. This quote is getting taped to the mirror. I want more of my days to look and feel like this one.