It’s hard not to look around and measure. At birthday parties, playgrounds, school drop-offs, even family gatherings, the comparisons sneak in quietly. Someone else’s child is talking sooner, reading earlier, sitting still longer, understanding faster. And without meaning to, you start asking yourself questions you never planned to ask. Is my child behind? Am IContinue reading “Popcorn Timing”
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Where the Noise Can’t Find You
Every now and then, life gets so loud that you don’t realize how tightly you’ve been holding your shoulders until you step away from all of it. Not far, not dramatically, not with a grand proclamation about taking a break—just far enough to hear something other than people. Far enough to remember what quiet actuallyContinue reading “Where the Noise Can’t Find You”
Seeing Beauty in the Ordinary
Sometimes we get so bogged down by the challenges of life that we stop seeing the beauty around us. We become myopic. The goal being, to make it through the day. Some may be facing complex challenges in their lives that caused them to become numb, but beauty is omnipresent. We need to take aContinue reading “Seeing Beauty in the Ordinary”
Kenrick Vaz 