Kids often talk more in the car than at the table. Something about not having to make eye contact. Use those rides.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Conversation is easier when nobody has to look at anybody. In a car you sit side by side, facing forwards, with a good excuse to go quiet, and that arrangement lowers the cost of saying something awkward. Across a table the same sentence feels like an announcement. Certain talks only ever seem to happen in motion.
Use the next drive you share with a parent or a sibling for one thing you have been meaning to say. Keep the radio low. If they are the one who starts talking, let the silences run instead of filling them.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What comes out easier for you in a car than a kitchen?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- The sound of rain on the bus window was the best background music you ever had. You just didn’t know it yet.
- A crossing guard stands in sleet so a crowd of distracted kids gets across safely. Wave back.
- Your grandpa’s old work boots by the door are a reminder of how many years somebody worked to keep a family going.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.