There is a moment that has been finding me lately, quietly and without warning, in the unhurried space between getting ready for the day and actually beginning it. I stand at the mirror, and I look. "How did it get so late so soon?" Dr Seuss Not with the harsh, inventory-taking gaze I was taught. The one that scans for flaws and measures what is missing. But with something softer than that. Something that took me most of my life to find. A kind of slow, wondering tenderness t
