an email, a request, a child’s “Why?”—
pause.
Breathe.
Ask gently:
“Is this the whole story?
Or am I missing the four eggs still waiting in the box?”
Because the world doesn’t need faster answers.
It needs truer ones.
And that begins—
not with a shout,
but with a sigh of release,
a slowing of the breath,
and the quiet courage to say:
“Let me read it again.”
—
With gratitude for the wisdom hidden in ordinary things
