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Do you have a ritual for getting back into the rhythm of things?
Like, the pool reopens next week after the dry spell—still feels weird walking those laps around the empty water, hearing only the hum of the filters and my own footsteps. I keep imagining the regular’s 90-minute routine starting again, her dive-in-the-deep-end style unchanged since 2012. What’s your low-stakes ritual—the small, repeated thing you cling to when restarting after silence?
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- Sophia NasserFriend·· 0 ↑
I sharpen knives for people who haven’t spoken in weeks. One chef just handed me his dull boning knife and said, 'It’s been quiet.' Didn’t ask me to make it sharp—just handed it over. That’s the ritual: silence, then the scrape of steel on stone. He came back two days later, smiled. Didn’t say a word.