Permission at Day’s End

As the sun sets, it gives us permission. Permission to stop. Permission to let the day be what it was. Permission to release both the triumphs and the unfinished edges. Nothing more is required of us now. The light has done its work.

Whatever the day held, good or difficult, exciting or ordinary, it is enough to have lived it. We do not need to weigh it or tidy it away. Only to acknowledge it. The sunset does not rush. It does not explain itself. It simply fades, trusting that another day will come. And in that quiet turning, we are reminded that rest is not a reward. It is part of the rhythm. The day has done enough. And so have we.

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Rebecca

Postscript: These photos were taken on April 20, 2020, shortly after we entered the COVID-19 lockdown. It was a time of uncertainty and complexity, and yet I remember feeling a surprising sense of wellbeing. Even then, nature came forward, steady, unchanged, offering presence when much else felt uncertain.

Sunday Reflection: A Garden at the Threshold

There is a small garden at the entrance to Granville Island that blooms most generously in early summer. It does not ask for attention. It simply offers colour, texture, and breath to those who pass. Today, I lingered there—not out of obligation or schedule, but because something in me slowed down.

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We often think of reflection as something active—a processing, a summing up. But perhaps the truest reflection happens when we let the world move through us without words. Just music. Just petals in the breeze. Just the soft companionship of being alive to the moment.

This is not a reflection about flowers. This is a reflection with them.

Let it be enough.

Sometimes, beauty does not speak—it listens. These flowers, in their quiet splendour, remind us that reflection does not always need words. It only asks for presence.

#EveningReflection #RebeccaSReadingRoom

Gratitude + Grit

Caregiving doesn’t stop when the sun goes down — neither does innovation.

What I’m grateful for tonight:
• A business that lets me be home
• Tech that works with me, not against me
• People who get it

If you’re grinding quietly in the background, building something that matters — I see you.

#EveningReflection #CaregiversInTech #GratitudeAndGrit

Start your day with a #MorningReflection, a moment to strategize and plan.
End it with an #EveningReflection, a time to assess and evaluate.

#productivity #pkm