Tag: paying attention
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Show Up. Stay. Risk It All.
Three ice waters. Fifteen minutes. A shaken server on the verge of tears. A nine-top that wasn’t ours. A middle table where everyone could see us. New on Five Minute Observations — a quiet essay about showing up, staying, and the risk of being kind first.
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Invisible
I found a slide from my 8th-grade graduation. My classmates were smiling. I wasn’t. I didn’t ask why. Nobody else did either.
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Leave It Alone
Paying attention is hard. But what do you do when you see something you can’t unsee? Pass on something you should have? In that moment do you see anyone else in power asking the same questions you are?
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She’s Why He Came Back
Alissa came home last night physically and emotionally wiped out, too hungry to see straight. She dropped into a chair and started talking anyway. What she saw that day outside Schnucks is still with me this morning.