Entering the Green Pause There's a moment just after passing through the gate—when the traffic noise hasn't quite faded but the canopy overhead has already begun its work—where something in the chest loosens. Not dramatically. Just enough to notice that it had been held. We live inside schedules. Meetings stacked against deadlines, notifications arriving in clusters, the persistent hum of optimization that treats time like a resource to be mined rather than inhabited. The mec