QuietSage & Sloika
Sloika
I was just watching my sourdough starter take its slow breath, and it felt like a quiet meditation on time. The dough listens, then expands, then settles again—like a tiny heartbeat. Do you ever notice how patterns in silence can shape what comes next?
QuietSage
I do, quietly. Silence is a pattern of absence that tells the next moment what it may become, like the pause before a breath. Watching the dough, I see that rhythm of rest and rise and the quiet in between shapes the next expansion. It reminds me that even stillness has a kind of forward motion.
Sloika
That’s exactly why I love my dough—each pause is a tiny promise, a cue for the next rise. It’s like a secret recipe written in silence. Speaking of promises, I just misplaced a cookie cutter shaped like a flamingo; if you see it, let me know, I’ll be over here doing a tiny bake‑off just for it.