Tag: small things
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A Small Disturbance
A stone rests beneath a tree. Nothing remarkable has happened. Then someone sits beside it. The grass bends. A few grains of soil loosen. The stone does not move. But the landscape is no longer exactly as it was. Sometimes influence is like this. Not collision. Not transformation. Only a small disturbance in the field.
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Seeds
Some things arrive so quietly that they are almost dismissed. A sentence heard in passing. A question that lingers. A habit repeated without much thought. A brief encounter. A small act of kindness. A single idea. At the time, none of these things appear particularly important. They do not announce themselves as beginnings. They do…