Empty Pages

The empty page

is just what I needed.

How about you?

In her latest book, I Eat the Stars, author Sarah Wilson has deliberately inserted a blank page. Page 27 contains a short paragraph to give us ‘dear readers’ permission to pause while ‘our feelings catch up’.

The blank page may well be needed in a book on a heavy topic, and it is well and truly needed in other parts of our work and life.

When we are navigating through uncertainty and change we can often feel that there is no choice but to keep ‘turning the page’. We may get to the end of the ‘book’ exhausted and overwhelmed, and carrying a heavy load from all that we have taken in, and taken on.

As the author of our own lives, we don’t need permission to pause. We can insert that empty page into whichever chapter we so choose.

Not only will our feelings have a much-needed chance to catch up, we might just find a burst of energy and hope to turn to the next page.

As we find ourselves near the midpoint of another year, perhaps we all need to rest a while on the blank page.