a quiet space for daily reflection.

The heart that has known many lands is never a small heart.

Ibn Battuta · Rihla · 1325

a reflection

Ibn Battuta's view of the world expanded dramatically over his travels: he went from a young man with a fairly conventional North African education to someone who had eaten in homes from Mali to China, prayed alongside Muslims of wildly different customs, and served rulers whose courts looked nothing like anything he grew up with. His heart, in a sense, got bigger by being stretched. Think of someone in your life whose experiences are very different from yours, a coworker from another country, an older relative, a friend with a different faith or background. Today, ask them one real question about their life, something you have been curious about but never asked. Listen to the answer without immediately relating it back to your own experience. Let your sense of what is normal get a little bigger.