✍️ Wrote more observational prose, which is one of the ways I try to keep the pen sharp and pay attention to my home.

“The words rolled off the woman’s tongue with irresistible tenderness. Her care was stated with such conviction that even the eavesdroppers understood it as a promise, or perhaps, a prayer. Her modelesque features—sharp cheekbones, perfect posture, and piercing eyes— had just minutes ago caused everyone in the room to rearrange themselves, but now felt eerily irrelevant. She was no longer an ornament. She was a girl— love-giving, hand-holding, life-nurturing.”