Notice a button
let yourself experience the gift of a button
Yes, button play is beautiful for children.
Also yes, a button—any button—is beautiful for YOU.
Try this:
Find a button and hold it in your hand.
Focus on the button while you breathe in-and-out, in-and-out.
The button will tell you something or travel you somewhere.
Your practice is to let it—allow yourself to be led by the button and go where it invites you to go.
Feel the gift of this. Say thank you.
Maybe share your button, or your button story, with a friend.
Remember, a button is enough as it is.
So are you.
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Love, Melissa
Related post: Notice yourself
Note: National Button Day is November 16!
Additional Resources:
in a button (picture book)
The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid, illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain
Connexio (beautiful, open-ended board game with simple small object illustrations)
Why small objects? (essay, 2021)
The Poetics of Space: The classic look at how we look at intimate places by Gaston Bachelard (this book explores the immensity of the small in a perfectly exquisite way and, for me, honors the essence of a button)
Button Snail Hum is a pollination project of Noticing Matters.
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