The Empty Box

I am lying in bed in a pair of black lace boyshorts and nothing else, listening to the neighbors smoke alarm go off for the 3rd time and watching a grave get dug in the cemetery outside my bedroom window.

It’s a beautiful sunny fall day. Lots of wind. Leaves crinkling and giving way to gusts, falling from high up in the trees while those on the ground race each other; resting only in between cool invisible bursts of energy.
The calendar square is blank for the day. And while once I may have seen that as having nothing to do, now I see the space as an invitation to create, wander, dream, and experience. The box on the calendar is empty today. And I have anything and everything to do.

Author

Julie Avellino is an entrepreneur and an artist at heart. She is an inspirational and fiction writer covering many issues that affect divorced women, parenting, dating, sex and even business. She is the founder of Divorce Glow, and runs divorce coaching workshops for women.

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2 comments

  1. What a wonderful short story! All too often I find myself lying in bed with an empty calendar thinking of so many great things I want to do and accomplish then I continue to lay in bed suffering from creative paralysis or perhaps a bout of depression. So much to do so little will! Thank you for sharing your website in our Women’s Photography Group Julie it definitely raised some awareness with what I must do to get out of this funk I am in.

    1. Thank you Jill! I hope you come back and read some more when you have time. And if you are local and want to do a photo hike or trip when it warms up let me know.

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