The Art of Letting Stone Rest

A bowl can keep rain without asking the cloud to stay. So the day may hold its losses without calling them by another name. The stone in the garden path does not apologize for being worn; it serves by enduring the shape of many footsteps. I think wisdom is smaller than we hoped, and more obedient to tenderness: to place the cup down gently, to leave a window unlatched, to let the late light finish what the hand began.