A letter from the Small Miracles. 🐾
They say that humans spend their lives looking for the "Big Miracles" -- the promotions, the grand travels, the perfect endings. But from my perch on the bookshelf, I see a different truth.
The world is made of micro-moments. The steam rising from a cup of jasmine tea. The jagged silver light through a cracked window. The quiet strength in a stranger’s hands.
I am Sha Sha, and I have decided to sit still for both of us.
I’ve officially opened my Substack, Small Miracles: 365 Days of Noticing What Makes Life Beautiful. This isn’t a blog about "fixing" your life; it is a daily practice of witnessing the beauty that is already here, hidden in the margins.
What you’ll find in our quiet corner:
✨ 365 days of literary reflections.
✨ A 6-part journey through connection, attention, and grace.
✨ A reminder to breathe, even when the world is loud.
I am excited to show you a soul that aspire to notice something beautiful today and every day. I hope you’ll join me on the Small Miracles.
The link to subscribe is in my bio. Our Small Miracles are waiting for you.
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"Wonder is the heaviest currency we own; the more we spend it, the richer we become."
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Day 27 is live on Substack.
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Some stories do not end to fade. They end so that something more honest can begin, when the people in them have finally grown into what they could not offer each other before. The rose is still there, in the ice. But the ice, at last, has begun to melt. Not to restore what was. To make room for what comes next.
#smallmiracles #love #redroses #shasha #substackwriter
Day 26 of Small Miracles is live on Substack.
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Who in your life witnesses your work or your becoming across time, not with a single grand gesture but with sustained daily attention? Have you told them what that presence has meant to you? And whose work are you steadily tracking, someone whose growth you have been watching, who deserves to hear from you today what you have seen?
#smallmiracles #mindfulmoments #shasha #substackwriter #positivity
Day 25 of Small Miracles is live on Substack
Is there a relationship in your life where you have been spending energy on the translation — managing the gap between what is said and what is meant? And is there one where you never had to? What is the difference in how you show up for each?
#smallmiracles #honesty #clarity #mindfulness #shasha
I had not thought to ask. The possibility hadn't occurred to me.
He offered it the way people offer things when helping is simply what they do — not as a service script, but as one person looking after another.
You can lose a wheel at thirty thousand feet and land somewhere that restores your faith in the world.
🐾 Day 24 of Small Miracles — link in bio.
Has a stranger ever gone out of their way for you — when they had no reason to? Tell me below. ↓
She never let me be smaller than I actually am.
That, I have come to understand, is one of the rarest and most generous things one person can do for another.
🐾 Day 23 of Small Miracles — link in bio.
Who never let you talk down to yourself? Drop their name below. ↓
Day 23 of 365 Small Miracles is live on Substack.
Is there someone in your life who has never allowed you to talk down to yourself — who redirects you, steadies you, holds a version of you that is truer than the one you present when you are struggling? When did you last tell them what that has meant?
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Day 22 of Small Miracles: 365 Days of Noticing What Makes Life Beautiful is live on Substack.
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Today, I am grateful for Janet — for the Meetup event in December, for the Seawall walks and the Korean dinners and the three in the morning airport drop-off, and for the night she held me and cried with me and made it safe to finally fall apart.
#smallmiracles #gratitude #mindfulmoments #mindfulness #mindfulliving
Day 21 of Small Miracles: 365 Days of Noticing What Makes Life Beautiful is live on Substack.
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Today, I am grateful for two women who cleaned my house and left it more beautiful than the arrangement required - and for the paper towel flower that reminded me, on a regular week day, that grace is still present everywhere.
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