today is the day when i am content to do no more

I cradle of cup of hot tea in my hands. It is scalding, so I set it down on my desk. Today, at this moment, I feel articulately accomplished. I have finished my tough work, and the sunshine is sluicing through that clear square mounted on my wall, massaging the carpet and my homework and the coverlets.

Instead of partaking in the self-gratifying and economically-stimulating activity of community service, I beclouded myself in my sun baked room and have just spent the past several hours in level two paralysis, studying the various regions of Asia, and discovering the history that links the geography and anthropology of that particular region.

It is simply a fascinating culture. I learned that a lot of samuari’s practiced homosexuality-which was an okay thing in Japan for a long time, I guess, and that China held Europe by the nose rings in trade, even when the Dutch and British were docked in their harbors and practically bribing, begging and manipulating to get their resources. I learned about paupers becoming emporeres, about how the Ming soldiers actually opened the gates in The Great Wall for the Manchu invaders because they were so fed up with their own government, and how one emporer in Japan ruled that government officials could only live at home every other year, and that poorer people were restricted from traveling unless they had permission.

A lot of parents practiced infanticide because it was too economically burdensome to have a large family. You know, they actually built The Great Wall because they couldn't think of any other way to keep out foreign armies. It was a back up plan. Weird, huh?

Now I am listening to acoustic music, sipping my hot tea, and just breathing deeply. My body feels calmed, relaxed, happy. I feel like I am positively glowing, content with being mute, absorbing the world around me in a digestive manner.

And I am content to do no more.

Today has been a good day.