He was right of course—I couldn’t stack the stones until I relaxed my mind, and once I did, it was calming. I don’t think I could have done three. Well, maybe. Maybe with practice. And then it clicked: A good relationship is like stacking stones; it takes patience, listening, and finding the right balance. And even when things fell down, if you had the right frame of mind, you could stack them back up, or find a new balancing point. The key was patience and an open mind.
