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Spider plant, then rosemary, then the jade plant that once belonged to my mother, in that order and no other, every morning above the kitchen sink, whether or not any of them actually needs the water.
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Before anything else in the morning, the stovetop kettle goes on the back burner, and the ten slow minutes it takes to…
A faded green wingback chair sits at the exact angle to catch the last hour of afternoon light, and the twenty quiet…
The deadbolt only needs one turn, but every night it gets two, and the second one has become the small, deliberate full…
Every evening, before the sky has actually gone dark, someone flips the switch by the front door, and that small act of…
Most evenings the porch does not need sweeping at all, but the broom comes out anyway for the same five minutes, corner…
Every Sunday afternoon the shallow wicker basket in the hallway gets emptied out completely, sorting a week's worth of stray gloves and…