Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Meditations in an Emergency
Cocktail hour

Cocktail hour

An intermission

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Rosecrans Baldwin
May 07, 2022
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“Cocktails” (1926), Archibald Motley

It’s not the drink, it’s the breather. Day done, sun descending. I put on music. If I didn’t finish the crossword at lunch, I give it another pass, or take thirty minutes with a book, maybe a magazine. There’s a sense of a moment lifted, silhouetted from the day. It’s a habit of changing mindset, pressing reset: takin…

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