Today I woke up not too inspired, so I tried the 4-4-4 slice format that I’ve seen at arjeha and Persistence and Pedagogy: 4 minutes to write about 4 things within 4 feet of you. Here’s what I ended up with:
My silk Drowsy eye mask that I got after going to Cuba with Reeta. She’s always worn an eye mask, but this one was something special. Silk, plush, and no ear straps, aka. no pain. I treated myself to one as soon as I got home, and now wear it every night. It keeps my curls in tact. P jokes about how I wore it on our first sleepover. “Well, goodnight!”
Hydrocortisone cream on the nightstand because the eczema on my knuckles always acts up when I travel, especially if the weather is different from Miami.
My kindle with about 9 or 10 library loans on it. Do you know the trick for keeping library loans as long as you’d like on your kindle? If not, I’ll let you in on the secret now: as soon as you deliver the books to your kindle, put it on airplane mode. Then, even when they officially get returned to the library, they’ll remain on your kindle until you read them!
The blackout shutters, wooden with slats, a typical feature of almost all brownstones in New York. They block out all the light, turning my bedroom here into the perfect cave, pitch black until I’m ready to wake up.
And there goes the timer! One more minute to reread and clean up, and then I’ll turn on the light and add some photos.
Writing With Abandon 