I sat in a coffee shop for three hours

Posted on October 3, 2012 by elizabeth

I sipped lavender green tea. I chatted. Someone asked where I was going all dressed up and I said: Here, just here. Because I will wear my pretty clothes for no other reason than I like the feel of a crisp pencil skirt and the whimsical click of 4″ sequin heels. I will dither. I will “waste” time–with impunity.

Because, as Brene Brown says, “exhaustion is not a status symbol.”

And after sitting in the coffee shop for three hours? I went home and took a long nap.

I could get used to this whole resting thing.

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  • http://somewiseguy.com/ ThatGuyKC

    Good for you.

  • Aprille

    Is it horrible if I say I’m jealous? that sounds amazingly lovely. So glad that you took the time for yourself!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/sarahlbickerstaff Sarah Bickerstaff

    This sounds wonderful!!! Love that you’re posting every day, by the way.

  • colleen police

    i can’t express how much i loved this, Elizabeth!! i need to show it to my mom ;) love to you…

  • http://teamaidan.wordpress.com/ Heather Bowie

    This is just so smart. We’d be wise to learn from your example, even if some of us choose to sit and rest in sneakers.

  • Em

    I’m curious about what you’re dropping to make space in your life for so many hours of leisure? I ask because I’m feeling horribly overtaxed by life right now, and yet I’m not sure what I could really drop. Wondering how you figured that out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cheryl-Chamberlain-Duwe/556705504 Cheryl Chamberlain Duwe

    Good for you!