Welcome to this week’s newsletter!
I read something recently that made me stop scrolling for a moment.
Apparently, if you put a lobster into cold water and slowly heat it up, it won’t notice the danger straight away. It adapts gradually to the changing temperature until eventually it’s overwhelmed.
Now, whether that’s scientifically perfect or not almost doesn’t matter. The point does.
Human beings can be a bit like that too.
We adapt. We keep going. We normalise busyness, pressure, tiredness, noise. Sometimes we become so used to rushing through life that we stop noticing the good things happening around us.
And yet, every now and then, something cuts through the noise.
Sunshine arriving after weeks of grey skies.
A proper laugh - I love a proper uncontrolled laugh - its mega.
A child saying something unexpectedly wise.
Someone showing kindness at exactly the right moment.
Little reminders that life is not just about enduring the heat, it’s about noticing the warmth too, and in the words of the Lathoms, shows us just "how beautiful life can be....."
And perhaps that’s the challenge this week.
Not simply to get through life.
But to actually notice it while we’re living it.