Let’s sit a while, she said, and it was nice, for a moment.
But after a few too many moments, she did not want to sit anymore.
She wanted to stride, to gallop, to saunter, and run.
She wanted to live!
And while many do sit through their living, the sitting kind of living was not for her.
She remembered, it’s not the sitting that the bench brings. The bench is a very active place, in fact. It can be a very full place, or it can be a place on which to empty everything.
But if you let it, she said, a bench can bring adventure, imagination, reflection, insight. It can bring you far and wide or within your own secluded world. A bench can be whatever kind of place you need it be.
So, she decided, instead of sitting on this bench, she would be on this bench. And, oh, the places she’d go.
Pacific Northwest Coast
Summer 2019
Kelly Green Guilbeau 