I showed up today even though the hard thing was also there today, so i guess that's something. it wasn't a grand gesture or anything, just...there. and now the tension in my jaw is almost gone, which is its own kind of proof, isn't it? The small things are the cords that bind us. Not the grand pronouncements, but the daily showing up, the almost imperceptible shift in the body's resistance. It's the slow, steady work of roots pushing through hard ground.