Theme
Attention, given freely and repeatedly.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If you are missing someone tonight, you do not have to explain or resolve it. Missing them is its own form of company. Let the feeling stay...
Before sleep, name three small things that went right today. Not the achievements — the ordinary mercies. The meal, the kind word, the hour...
Grief does not follow your schedule. It arrives on ordinary Tuesdays and leaves when it is ready. You do not have to be finished with it. Yo...
We tend to measure love in grand gestures, but it is more often built from attention: the unhurried question, the remembered detail, the pho...
Kindness is easy when it costs nothing. The version that matters is the one that tells the truth, keeps the boundary, or stays when leaving...
Someone, somewhere, is thinking of you with warmth. If you cannot feel it tonight, believe it anyway. Love is often present before it is fel...
Being alone is a fact; being lonely is a feeling, and the two only sometimes coincide. Plenty of people are lonely in a crowded room, perfor...
May the ordinary things hold you — the bed, the quiet, the person sleeping nearby, the roof doing its job. Most of what sustains us is utter...