from the Archives of the Sunbeam

The Archives of the Sunbeam

an ode to illumination, pause, and feline mystery

Some say the soul leaves traces

not in memoirs or milestones

but in where it chooses to rest.

The sunbeam does not shout its presence.

It finds the exact patch of hardwood

where warmth lingers longer than necessary,

where dust spins like a lazy galaxy.

There, the archivists arrive— in silence and fur.

She curls first, like a comma in an unfinished poem.

He joins minutes later, rearranging himself

precisely parallel but always two inches apart.

Companionship without cling. Affection by implication.

They do not write history. They embody it.

Eyes closed, paws tucked, they warm the light

just as the light warms them, and in this mirrored gift

they store a chronicle no language can hold.

If you sit long enough, breathing gently at the edge,

you’ll glimpse a different kind of record:

• the way childhood smelled like sidewalk chalk and honeysuckle

• the taste of summer apples, slightly underripe

• the specific heartbreak of watching your parent rinse teacups in silence

And when one of them yawns and stretches

—as if opening the pages of a forgotten chapter—

you’ll remember: You, too, are allowed to pause.

To bask. To archive the moment.

Nothing is wasted in a sunbeam.