EVENING ALL DAY

"Evening Sun", oil, by Delilah Smith

     Cia and I usually have tranquil, quiet evenings, mostly at home, and it sometimes occurs to me that our  days are actually just like these kindhearted evenings. It’s interesting that the word “evening” comes from the word “even”, which suggests, not the coming of night, but simply smoothness and steadiness, as in “The road ran evenly across the landscape.” Maybe all our days, without our realizing it, actually run evenly along, going where they must in a level and laid-back way. Maybe we just don’t notice the evenness of our days as clearly as we see the easygoing mellowness of our evenings. Perhaps we should look for the relaxed “evening” of each hour in the same way that we look forward to the quiet of our evenings at home. Maybe we can learn to see the “evening” – the smoothing out and leveling of everything – in each daytime moment.