precious | 100 words day 1 | lauren holt

"These words aren't so precious," she said. "Eventually we'll get better at them," I heard myself confirm. Her part detachment; mine reassurance. But why? of what? Not that we'll see that words don't matter but that finding the perfect ones will matter less, that the time it takes to find the ones that tie a day together - our seeing and choosing the double string that threads the moments we pluck out - will get easier, that the practice of pausing-looking-thinking will teach us to trust our observations, ourselves. While the words may not be precious, the opportunities to seed them are.