January 2, 2026- Our soft edges

Cracks in our souls help us bear the overwhelming imperfections of the world. They’re not our flaws. Kindness knows this.

~Aditya Bhaskara

We tend to forget that our boundaries are not as fixed as what we see with our eyes. Animals can smell us from hundreds of yards away. Humans can sense our energy when we enter or leave a room. Our impact will remain with the people with whom we are closest, long after we are dead and gone. What we can see is only one definition of where we begin and end.

There is space between our molecules. As we travel farther away from our core, that space becomes wider. This creates a permeability we should never deny. This allows our own molecules, our own being, to mix with others. There is no defined spot where one being ends and another begins, but just a space that is more one person than it is another.

It is the space between molecules that are the cracks in our soul. It is that space that allows humans to be more than individual entities, but a collective humanity. It is that space that allows the strengths of one to make up for the imperfections of another.

Let’s be more intentional about our soft edges. Let’s allow those cracks to be filled, to invite in the beauty of those around us. Let’s be willing to invite in molecules that are very different from ours, and watch how magical those diverse environments can become. Kindness lives in that space – outside what we can see, but inside what we are.