A Quiet Reminder

I keep a post-it on my fridge that says "This too shall pass." It used to be a comfort during hard times. Now I see it as a gentle nudge to savor the good ones.

For years, this reminder was something I leaned on when life felt heavy. I would look at that piece paper like it had the power to pull me through one more hard day.
But lately, I catch myself reading it a little differently.
It is still true that the hard things don’t last forever, but that also means the good ones don’t either. The soft mornings. The days when the house feels calm for no particular reason.
This is what presence really is.
Not perfection.
Not control.
Just noticing what is here before it shifts into something else.
So I keep the post-it where it has always been, but now it feels less like a life raft and more like a gentle nudge. A reminder to savor the easy, ordinary moments before they move on, the same way everything else does.

If you want help noticing the bright spots in your own days, try catching them on paper before they slip by. A few words, a tiny moment, anything that makes you pause. Our pocket notebooks were made for this kind of quiet remembering.