RDP: Languor

A Lazy Post

n.Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness: synonym: lethargy.

n.A dreamy, lazy, or sensual quality, as of expression.

n.Oppressive stillness, especially of the air.

I can relate to all three of these definitions of the word languor.

The first one is how I’ve been feeling a lot lately. I want to write but don’t have the mental energy to write to a prompt let alone write a post about anything else. I’m often physically tired after working at the Op Shop and winter has left me rather lethargic and listless. I’m hoping spring will snap me out of it.

The second definition is a pleasanter sensation. I sometimes feel languorous on a sunny afternoon in my garden. I listen to the birds and the wind chimes that I hung in the apple tree and it is lovely and dreamy and peaceful. Until the next-door neighbours get home and start revving up cars or swearing and arguing, then it’s time to go back inside.

The last definition, for me, is a hot summer’s day, the kind we had way too many of in Adelaide. The air is hot and still and nobody has the energy to do much of anything. The sort of weather when you start to worry about bushfires and in Adelaide, dust storms.