smoothing out
Smoothing out starts with the hands.
Warm water.
A small amount of soap.
Movement repeats.
Back and forth.
Edges soften.
Around you, things keep happening.
Sounds overlap.
The day doesn’t pause.
But here, for a moment, something changes.
The hands know what to do.
The movement doesn’t rush.
Nothing is fixed.
Nothing is solved.
Still, when you’re done,
something feels slightly easier to hold.
Not because the day is calmer -
but because you were.
explore: this memory lives in our massage soap bar
