Lay down by me for a moment
T is an academic – they live outside the normal workaday world in their tempo. She reclines to read most of the time. I’ll be jetting through the house going from here to there almost at Loca speed and she’ll say come sit here with me or lay down here by me and I’ll just look at her as if she landed from Mars.
Similarly, my mother was always telling me to sit a spell, to lie down with her and watch TV and I’d be spinning around in circles and hopping from foot to foot moving onto the next thing. Now that she is the hospital there is an urgency that underscores her request. Come lie down, she says, and pats the side of the bed with her hands in restraints. And I lay down, and we watch TV together.
How do you stop the sun from shining, or slow down a moving train?