Stopping to start again

“You stop running. You stop struggling. You allow yourself to rest, to heal, to calm.” — Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist Monk

Stonehenge. Photo by Kim Thai, 2019.

I have a hard time with transitional periods in my life because of the staleness of them. It’s the time in between things, milestones that I find the most challenging; the silence of them always seems to be the most deafening to me.