An open book in her hands, inside the bus, window alongside.
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A question before the next page

Before looking for a ready answer, I want to make room for a good question.

Decision

Before looking for a ready answer, I want to make room for a good question. What am I trying to understand right now?

Action

The questions moving through my life can follow me onto a page: what does choosing mean? How do I want to work? What am I calling living well?

Adjustment

For now, I’m leaving the question open. I don’t need a conclusion from every paragraph. I can return, disagree and notice what I haven’t understood yet.

Camila Balieiro in a natural portrait, hair down, looking at the camera.

I want this space to have that pace.

The account

How it went, from start to adjustment.

Before looking for a ready answer, I want to make room for a good question. What am I trying to understand right now?

That is how I want to open this chapter of the journal. With curiosity and time to think, without turning reading into an obligation to seem more interesting.

The questions moving through my life can follow me onto a page: what does choosing mean? How do I want to work? What am I calling living well?

An idea can offer another way to look at these things. I want to talk about that meeting between what I read and what I’m living. When a specific book belongs in that conversation, I want to tell you which one and why.

For now, I’m leaving the question open. I don’t need a conclusion from every paragraph. I can return, disagree and notice what I haven’t understood yet.

I want this space to have that pace. The page offers words. I bring my life and what I still need to ask.

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