Outage

Earlier today, my website was down. No known reason, just offline.

The problem only lasted a few minutes, but it reminded me of widespread power outages and the compulsory pauses that result.

Depending on our situation, those outages can be a gift.

Because momentarily dialing our expectations back to zero can be a welcome breath.

For this moment, nothing is required of me — just that I am is enough.

We don’t need a blip in the system to give ourselves that kind of break. We can build it into part of each day. The world will likely not even take notice, but it could make all the difference for our internal selves.