Thursday - Mornings with Prof. Squirrel

Perched with quiet authority on the sundial or the garden bench, Professor Squirrel takes his place and the day's lesson begins. Foram has found in her unlikely garden companion one of the most honest teachers, and full of the kind of wisdom that only reveals itself when you stop long enough to notice.

Thursday is the fifth sitting in this seven-part series — a ritual portrait of mornings spent at breakfast in the Professor's company, the garden alive with early light as another lesson is delivered without a single word spoken. There is something in the way he sits — upright, alert, entirely himself — that carries a quiet instruction. Be still. Pay attention. Show up.The light here is Thursday's light — neither the bright promise of Monday nor the easy exhale of the weekend ahead. It is the week's quiet turning point, and the Professor, as ever, knows exactly what it asks of us.

Mornings with Prof. Squirrel is a love letter to the extraordinary teachers we find in ordinary places.