Over the next few days, in your work and life, strive for less instead of more. Notice the beauty of just one flower, or one shell on the beach, or one perfect photo. Appreciate whatever’s right in front of you instead of what’s coming.
And when the noise gets loud, remember to close out all the tabs in your internet browser to read only the one thing that’s meaningful to you in that moment. And may you find courage to turn your phone on silent.
And may these old words of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s ring timeless in your ears this week:
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky. One double-sunrise is an event; six are a succession, like a week of schooldays. …For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. …A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space.”
May we be brave and let go of the things that simply take up space.
