My Daughter in Law Showed Up With Suitcases and Said They Were Moving Into My Chalet

They do not need me to be smaller so they can feel larger. They are simply what they are, enormous and patient and indifferent to anyone’s opinion of their proportions.

I am learning, slowly and with more peace than I expected, to practice the same quality.

I am what I am. This is my house, my trust, my life, my door.

And the door is mine to open.