Different than expected. Than again when do you expect accurately. Relish the element of surprise.

Generalizing is easy. Empathizing is hard. That is, if you restrict your view to the short term.

Check, check, check, they must be like X. Judgement has been summoned and sentenced. There is no them.

Does perspective have space to breathe? Reading twice before you respond, a breath. Offering more questions than statements, a breath.

Over the course of getting good at it I become numb to the joy of it. Now I’m rediscovering that joy. And eventually creating from my love of it.