Patience is a balm.
With family birthday season being celebrated for my nearest and dearest, conversations find their way to expectations and what if’s, shoulds and coulds, achievements and the like. Invariably the reflections are on what has, may, or will change.
It is in these moments that we reach for wise words from Maria Popova :
have great patience with all attempts at changing for patience is respect bestowed on the present and a kindness to time.
When we practice patience, we might just see that - birthday, or no birthday - we are precisely where we are supposed to be. Enjoy.