The Energy We Don’t Count
I’ve been thinking lately about what it means to navigate a life, and particularly about the energy we expend as caregivers when we are caring for someone else.
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The Gift of a Rainy Day
There is a particular kind of relief in waking to rain. I don’t mean the dangerous kind that sends us hunting for flashlights and refreshing the weather radar every ten minutes. I mean ordinary rain, the steady, companionable sort that taps at the windows, blurs the edges of the morning, and turns the whole world outside a soft and forgiving gray.
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What Do You Need This Season?
There is something about the first hints of fall that invites us to slow down. The days begin to shorten, the light changes, and gardens that have spent months growing, blooming, and producing begin to quiet. Trees let go of their leaves without resistance. Nature seems to understand something many of us struggle to remember; we cannot always be in a season of doing.
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You Probably Used an Accessibility Feature Today
When we hear the word accessibility, it’s easy to think about things designed specifically for people with disabilities: ramps, designated parking spaces, Braille signs, wheelchair lifts. What we don’t always notice is how often an accommodation created to give one group better access becomes an ordinary part of life for the rest of us. There’s even a name for this: the curb-cut effect.
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The Rest of the Story: The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling” is a timeless tale of transformation and self-discovery, closely related to the themes of nursery rhymes and children’s songs.
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