False starts still count

A short letter about false starts, quiet pauses, and learning that preparation is progress, even when nothing visibly moves forward.

Dear Leo,

Today was meant to be a ‘beginning’. Your first day back at school. My first day back at work. The gates opening. The year properly underway. 

But you had other plans. Through no fault of your own, a bug of some sort snatched you up. 

A false start. Though the older I get, the less I believe that’s really a thing.