life’s burning questions

Taking a Break

Rusty Alderson
2 min readSep 8, 2021
Photo by JOYUMA on Unsplash

When you take a break
Do you give it back when you’re done?
Even though it’s a piece of cake
Are your chances slim-to-none?

When you say you will be right back
Who is going to be left front?
And when you’re playing quarterback
Do you always want to punt?

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Rusty Alderson

Retired technologist — eschewing cubicles; habitual observer; perpetual student; philosopher; poet; essayist; advocate for nature and wilderness.