You can sit down and write three sentences — how long does that take, three minutes, five minutes? — and be giving yourself a very rare gift of liste… - Naomi Shihab Nye

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You can sit down and write three sentences — how long does that take, three minutes, five minutes? — and be giving yourself a very rare gift of listening to yourself, just finding out, when you go back and look at what you wrote. And how many times we think, “Oh, I would never have remembered that if I hadn’t written it down — when and how did that even occur to me? I sort of like it, this week, and it could help me, and now I want to connect it to something else.”