The flowers have all arrived to give spring a proper return.

Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance, and return after you stray. Because the job is not to know; it’s to become. A sociopath knows what kindness is and how to weaponize it; a saint becomes it.

• Rebecca Solnit, Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

Rebecca focuses this around political change but I feel like it applies to personal growth and development just as well. Want to loose weight? Write or draw more? Be a better friend? Take the slower, grace-filled path of becoming.

It’s finally that time of year when the sun’s warmth beams in through the skylight.

Just because something’s good doesn’t mean we don’t deserve other options, and just because something is good for most people doesn’t mean there aren’t people who would benefit from something else.

• Matt Birchler, An app that’s good enough for most people still benefits from competition

Is it still a gargoyle if he’s tucked under the cornice and doesn’t help with rain?