A list of things I noticed last night:

• I leave too many tabs open. And I have too many Google Docs with no titles. Too many screenshots of quotes I found on Pinterest. Just too many.
• Book-Hopping: I’m reading three books at the same time.
• I start poems and never finish them because finishing them would mean I would never get to think about them again. And I want to think. Always. Who am I if I stopped thinking?
• I found a pen with the cap off on my bed. White cotton sheets. It left an ink mark in red that kinda looks like a heart. I love it.
• I have 3 dried-up coffee mugs on my hutch desk next to a half-lit candle. I also have a peach and basil scented candle [ a colleague gifted that to me for Christmas], and I smell it when I’m overwhelmed. Hold on- let me smell it one more time.
• A yellow stress toy to get me through soul-crushing Zoom meetings.
• My laptop’s on DND forever.
• I have 156 pens. I think I will buy a few more pens today because I’m afraid I will run out of ink when I write my most powerful piece ever.