When that hot coffee gets cold or that chilled wine gets warm, we are reminded:

Time passes

It shapes everything around us

It is our greatest resource

And

Our greatest tool for making the most of this resource is focus.

Being the parents of a neurodivergent child

puts new lenses on life.

These lenses alter focus, 

make things blurry, 

disorient the self in whatever ways it has become stabilized, 

in whatever ways the world has become predictable. 

If we take the time to let our children lead 

and we listen to them closely, 

we recalibrate, 

refocus, 

and not only adapt,

but find more authentic pathways forward.