To Be Taught, If Fortunate

by Becky Chambers

I’m an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.

Have you ever been in a place where history becomes tangible? Where you stand motionless, feeling time and importance press around you, press into you?

The amount a person can spare is relative; the value of generosity is not.

a home can only exist in a moment. Something both found and made. Always temporary, in the grand scheme of things, but vital all the same.