Loll

Loll: to act or move in a lazy or indolent manner. Now there's a good word: indolent. Sundays are often indolent in this house, during which we loll about. One floor below me, two couches hold one sleeping adult each. On one snoring adult lies one small child, reading a Tin Tin book to himself. On the floor between the couches lolls a still smaller child, also reading a Tin Tin book. (I'd like to take a picture, but I won't, to protect the innocent) Just outside my door is Two, quietly playing on the "computier". Four and Five are sleeping soundly and obediently. After a week of tumble-forward activity and sporadic catastrophe, I can feel peace settle into the corners... and so our house is at rest.