Momcomesfirst 23 05 09 Brianna Beach Words Of W... -

That day she taught me how to sort priorities like stones: some are heavy and need a permanent place; others are smooth and meant to be tossed back into the sea. She showed me the value of boundaries dressed as tenderness — how putting yourself first can make you kinder, not colder. When the wind picked up, she laughed and tied her hair back, and in that small motion I saw courage: the courage to choose rest, to say no, to hold the line.