something about the night and what it needs

It started because I kept waking up at 3am for no reason. Not anxious, not anything. Just awake in the dark, watching the ceiling do nothing.

Something about having a small ritual around sleep changed that. One capsule, same time each night, like a soft agreement with myself that the day was actually over.

I don't really talk about this kind of thing. But the connection between how you sit at a desk all day and how your whole lower body feels by Thursday is real and nobody mentions it.

This cushion. Quiet. Unassuming. It's been a few weeks now and there is something noticeably different about how I move in the morning.

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I kept this in the corner of the room for two weeks before I actually used it. Which is either nothing or everything, I think, depending on the day.

The stretch is slow. It asks something of you. That is the part I keep returning to