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The friend who kept texting
I was a bad friend for two years. He behaved as though I was not.
Twelve miles past the last sign
The chapel was locked, the caretaker was at lunch, and the drive was the whole thing anyway.
The hour before the phone
I gave the first hour of the day away for years without noticing the price.
Thirty minutes before anyone else is up
Not because mornings are magic. Because nobody is asking you for anything yet.
Two hours every Thursday
Four years in, and it is the only appointment I never move.
How to host badly and often
The house does not need to be clean. The date needs to be set.
Eating alone in a strange city
You are not lonely. You are just the only person in the room without a plan.
Giving on a schedule, not a mood
Automate the amount so the decision is made once, well.
The chair that does not sit level
Four years old, still in the kitchen, still the thing I am proudest of.
For an ordinary Tuesday
Nothing is wrong. That is exactly when I forget to be grateful.
Three books that ruined my map
Each one moved a border I thought was fixed.
A list of people, and when you last spoke
Unromantic. It works.
How to sit still for ten minutes
Badly, at first, and then less badly.
A one-line-a-day file
Six months later it is a body of work.
The friend who kept texting
I was a bad friend for two years. He behaved as though I was not.
Twelve miles past the last sign
The chapel was locked, the caretaker was at lunch, and the drive was the whole thing anyway.
The hour before the phone
I gave the first hour of the day away for years without noticing the price.
Thirty minutes before anyone else is up
Not because mornings are magic. Because nobody is asking you for anything yet.
Two hours every Thursday
Four years in, and it is the only appointment I never move.
How to host badly and often
The house does not need to be clean. The date needs to be set.
Eating alone in a strange city
You are not lonely. You are just the only person in the room without a plan.
Giving on a schedule, not a mood
Automate the amount so the decision is made once, well.
The chair that does not sit level
Four years old, still in the kitchen, still the thing I am proudest of.
For an ordinary Tuesday
Nothing is wrong. That is exactly when I forget to be grateful.
Three books that ruined my map
Each one moved a border I thought was fixed.
A list of people, and when you last spoke
Unromantic. It works.
How to sit still for ten minutes
Badly, at first, and then less badly.
A one-line-a-day file
Six months later it is a body of work.
Read the argument first.
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