Some mornings begin not with words, but with noticing—the hum of the refrigerator, the warmth of coffee, the silence beside me in bed. I take stock not with a ledger but a breath. The days are not always easy, but there is food, there is time, there is someone to call. And still, somewhere beneath all that, a small ache for what never was, or hasn’t yet arrived. Both are present: the fullness, and the hollow.
a prayer...
what we have
what we don't have