She dreams of dragging
me bodily out to sea,
rising at high tide.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 204.”
MIND: Rest
Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue — but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.
// Timothy Ferriss
MIND: Inching
Don’t think about what can happen in a month.
Don’t think about what can happen in a year.
Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you
and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
// Eric Thomas
SOL: Diffident
He always chokes on
his words when he tries to say
what he sees in me.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 203.”
MIND: Confines
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
The Insulted and Humiliated // Fyodor Dostoyevsky
SOL: Supplication
Handing me his still-
beating heart on a platter,
praying it’s enough.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 202.”
MIND: Sifting
You have been offered “the gift of crisis.” As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is “to sift,” as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only what’s important. That’s what crises do. They shake things up until we are forced to hold on to only what matters most. The rest falls away.
Carry On, Warrior // Glennon Melton
SOL: Enigmatic
hands speak of tactile
desire, her eyes betray the
vast hunger she holds
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 201.”
MIND: Upgrade
Whether it’s our routines or our relationships, it’s our responsibility to actively and continuously make them the way we want them to be.
The Miracle Morning // Hal Elrod
SOL: Isolation
starved for touch, skin taut,
begging to be held… how long
have you spent alone?
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 200.”
