"If someone seems boring to you... it might be that you don’t know how to prompt them. You probably don’t know how much beauty lies hidden in the people around you."

Asking the right question is a form of care and love. It believes there's more to find and calls someone into fuller being.

We move through the world assuming we’ve mapped the people closest to us. We know their coffee orders, their dating history, the last podcast they recommended. But these are surface echoes, tidy exports of interior life. And interior life is rarely tidy.

The truth is, we all contain secret cities. Hidden interiors. Rooms within rooms. Parts of us... See more