The view you keep returning to has become part of how you gather yourself.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Returning to the same view is not idleness. Somewhere along the way it became a place where your thinking settles, and the repetition is doing work: the same window, the same bend in the river, the same rooftops in a certain light. You are not looking for new information, you are using a familiar arrangement to put yourself back in order.

Notice which view you go back to and stop apologising for the time it takes. Give it a few minutes on a day that is already crowded, since that is the day it was built for. Small reliable anchors are worth protecting once you know you have one.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where do you go to become yourself again after a hard day?

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