Snow day

Snowy Vermont Morning

I woke up this morning to this beautiful scene. Still in my jammies at 11:25 am. During breakfast conversation I shared a quote from Ellen Langer's book, On Becoming an Artist, that particularly made me pause and think.

"The realization that all behavior makes sense from the actor's perspective or else the actor wouldn't do it makes all negative evaluations suspect, and all action based on these evaluations about people questionable."

Ms. Langer is writing about evaluation of art here but doesn't this really apply to everything? Wouldn't we all be more patient and compassionate if we thought that the person who just cut us off on the road might be dealing with an ill parent or child? And if we believed in ourselves more, then we wouldn't be so attached to the evaluations made by others?