On the courage of small replies
Why answering a friend's two-week-old message still counts as showing up — and how to do it without apology.
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From May's letter
“Somewhere in the last decade, we started treating replies as receipts. As if to not answer in minutes was to fail at love.”
But our grandparents wrote letters that took weeks to cross oceans, and nobody mistook silence for indifference. The cadence of care has always been slower than the cadence of tools. This month, I've been practicing the small courage of replying when I'm ready, not when I'm pressured…
— Léa, editor
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