I wasn't planning or worrying or trying to solve a problem. My hands just knew what to do. They knew when the dough was ready. They knew how much time to let it rest. They knew how to shape it. And I realized that this knowledge lives in my body, not just in my head. 🌾

We spend so much time in our heads—thinking, planning, analyzing. But there's another kind of intelligence that lives in your hands, in your body, in the way you move through the world. It's the intelligence of doing. And I think this intelligence is more honest than the thinking kind. Your hands can't lie. Your body can't pretend. 💚

When I teach my younger cousins to cook or to care for animals, I don't explain it with words. I show them. And then I watch them do it, and I correct their hands gently. Because learning this way—through doing, through repetition, through your body learning—it becomes part of you in a way that reading about it never could. 🙏

My grandmother had this way of working where she was completely present. Not rushing, not distracted, just fully there with whatever she was doing. And I think that's what made her so good at everything. Because her hands were attached to her attention. She wasn't just going through the motions. 🍂

The modern world wants us to be all head and no hands. But I think we're losing something important when we forget how to work with our bodies, how to make things, how to let our hands teach us. ✨

Do you think there are things that can only be learned by doing them, not by thinking about them?