The Quote Comes Home

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Everybody knows the quote, and everybody knows Einstein said it — except he didn't. It was born in recovery rooms, where it wasn't a taunt. It was tenderness — one struggling person saying to another: maybe the next attempt doesn't have to look like the last one. Because here's what thirty years of trying again actually proves: not that something's wrong with you — that something matters to you. That much repetition isn't insanity. It's hope with calluses on it. First of four short pieces this week, walking into the loudest months of the food year. Tomorrow: what was actually repeating all those years — because it wasn't you. More at transformwithsonja.com