It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
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The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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My daughter talking to her friends even though I thought I’d disabled her devices.
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For being genuine.
Right now. I live in the present.
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