Be

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Way off in the distance there was a call that was familiar but never heard before in the same way, or with the same ears, and now was listened to intently but not fully understood by all who received it. It simply said “Be.” Now some people, English teachers in particular, thought this to mean a progression in the alphabet and paid it no mind. Operational minds took this to mean the moving on and abandoning of the first set of plans for a second, possibly less optimal but effective solution. And the bees just had a warm feeling all over because they felt seen. But to an old man sitting on his stoop, and a farmer already tilling his field before the sun fully showed itself, and a priest preparing for morning aarti, and a muezzin clearing his throat to announce morning prayers, and a pilgrim heading down the Camino trying to beat the heat of the day, and a little child just opening her eyes for the first time, it meant much more. For they understood that in that moment there wasn’t anything more they needed to do to have a good day.