Five things for a night when you miss someone

Some evenings the house is too quiet, and someone's name sits right behind your ribs. I know that kind of night.

Here is what helps, at least for me:

  1. Make tea and sit with the whole cup. No scrolling. Missing someone is not an emergency. It wants ten quiet minutes, that's all.

  2. Write the three true lines. Send them, or keep them. Both count.

  3. Play the album you two called yours. Loud enough for the kitchen.

  4. Walk to the corner and back. Ten minutes out; the night air helps more than it should.

  5. Find the one photograph. The specific one, not the scroll. Look at it on purpose.

None of this fixes anything. It just makes the missing feel a little more like company.

If someone's on your mind tonight: I make small quiet pieces for exactly this, one true thing about them is enough to begin. The first one is free. Write to me: [email protected]