A wise recipe · Love and kindness
A Recipe for Loving Someone
The one Soot says she never writes down, then writes down anyway.
Enough for a whole household · Slow, always slow
Ingredients
- •One noticing — what they need before they ask
- •A generous pour of patience
- •Small kindnesses, chopped fine and used often
- •The last cookie, given away
- •Words said out loud, not just meant
How it's done
- 1
Notice something small and mention it.
- 2
Do the boring helpful thing nobody thanked you for.
- 3
Say the words. Out loud counts double.
- 4
When you are cross, wait for the kettle to boil before you speak.
- 5
Do it again tomorrow. That's the whole method.
Give one small kindness away today without telling anyone.
Nobody does it alone.
Soot Bakes It All
The book this kitchen came from — Soot bakes her way through the first snow, and the whole hill turns up hungry.
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