Reflections

A slow return to what asks to be known.

Three questions chosen for your Framework this month. Answer any of them. Or none. The practice trusts you.

1. 012026-08-05

   Where did your body arrive before your mind today?

   On the call with my sister. I heard her voice tighten and my shoulders answered before she finished the sentence. My body knew what was coming. My mind arrived about a paragraph later.

2. 022026-08-01

   Name a pattern that once protected you. What was it protecting?

   Overthinking. It protected me from being surprised. Surprise was expensive in the house I grew up in. Being ahead of the moment was cheaper than being inside it.

3. 032026-07-27

   What is the smallest evidence that something is shifting?

   I let a text sit for an hour before replying. An hour. That is not a huge accomplishment on paper. On the inside it is a small country I have never been to.