A small practice. Keep two toy bricks in your pocket ~ different colors, any vintage. Before a moment that needs holding ~ a hard conversation, an apology, a beginning ~ click them together once, and mean it. The click only carries what you put into it. Halfhearted in, halfhearted out. Afterward, un~click them gently. Both still whole. That was the rehearsal ~ and a rehearsal is real practice only if you play it real. Now go do the real one.