You can love someone AND decide not to be close to them. On the small word that took me years to learn, and the colours between black and white.

On a full moon labyrinth walk at the Sacred Garden on Maui, I noticed something about the narrow path: every time two people met, someone made room. This article explores the small acts of kindness we make a hundred times a day, the research showing givers dramatically underestimate their impact, Adam Grant's work on why giving cascades, and Eve Hogan's beautiful word for what the labyrinth offers: a SOULution. On the choice between making it easier or harder for the person coming toward you.

On belief, perception, and the doors we close without noticing I was talking with a friend the other day about something I want. Something that felt big. And somewhere in the middle of describing it, I heard myself say five words I have said a hundred times without ever really hearing them. "I can't imagine that happening." He did not even pause. He just said: "Well, then it won't." I laughed. And then I sat with it for the rest of the day, because he was right, and because it stung in the...