Element
Air
Breath, words, and study. Also the smoke you should not force into shared lungs.
Air is the element of promises. Say fewer of them, and keep the ones you make. It is also literal breathing. Incense, resins, and herb smoke are optional luxuries that become harm in small rooms, around birds, cats, children, and anyone with asthma. This library almost never requires them.
An air practice
- 1Open a window for one minute if the air outside is safe. If it is not, skip to speech.
- 2Read one paragraph of a source, not a caption.
- 3Say one sentence you can stand behind tomorrow.
- 4If you were about to send a message in anger, wait until you have left the chair and come back.