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Be Kind to Where You Are
You cannot hate yourself into becoming someone you like.
I Just Need a Quiet Place
A place for stillness and peace.
Nothing has to be solved in here.
You don't have to explain anything, decide anything or feel better by the time you leave. Put the noise down for a while. The world can wait twenty minutes.
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Written for the middle of it, not the end.
Journal prompt
Where in my day can I find ten minutes that belong to nobody else?
There is no online journal here and nothing is stored — write it wherever you keep things, or don't write it at all.
Reflection
Quiet is not the same as empty. In here it is a place to set things down, not a place that asks you to fill it.
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Low, unhurried and almost ambient — for reading, or for not doing anything at all.
You are not alone.
The Porch is where the conversation happens. Come in and sit down.
