When everything settles down into a dull roar and the exhaustion behind your eyes spills out across the cheekbones it’s time to admit a break is necessary.

I think I often hit this point in September. I’ve rolled myself through the summer then pushed through August and whatever fresh hell back-to-school season brought so there was (is?) an inevitable crash in September. Almost like those back to school summer surveys — how did you spend your summer, what was your favorite pastime, why did/didn’t you work a job — filled with questions about everyday life choices.

The homework that makes you look hard at how you’re living. Unless you just check the boxes and turn it in. Less mental anguish, more ✔️done and ✔️done energy.

Sometimes the win for homework is having the fortitude to complete it at all.

Linda hosts Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt is “starts with ‘ho.’” Find a word that begins with the letters “ho” and use it any way you’d like. Have fun!