“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” -Maya Angelou

“Not everything needs to be figured out quickly. Some things are meant to be understood slowly.”

“Kindness is not something you do. It’s something you are.” -Raktim Ganguly

“Some of us think in straight lines. Some of us think in circles that eventually land in the right place. Neither is wrong. They just see the path differently.” When sitting with my husband this weekend I noticed that his stories are often A to B, while mine take the most curvy mountainous road with hills and dips and turns and switchbacks before eventually finding their destination. More often than not, the details make me think of other things I want to do, places to go, or ideas to try. He always listens to me (occasionally asking how I made it from one thing to the next - to which sometimes there is no logical answer) and mostly keeps up with me. After he left and I was thinking about how differently we plan, storytell, etc, I wondered why is it like that? He thinks "Why are you going all over the place" while I think "How are you skipping all these important pieces?!" All I can think of is he moves us forward, and I make it make sense. The sweet spot is we can bring it all together.

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” - Ram Dass Sometimes the answers that we're looking for are hard to hear over the noise of rushing, reacting, and filling every moment. When things are quiet, we can truly notice what’s been there all along... a thought we’ve been avoiding, a truth we already know, or a small nudge about the direction we want to go. I often sit on my deck and look up at the tall trees and reflect, plan, or am intentionally still. My best ideas show up in moments like that. How about you?