The Couch Blog

I wake up thinking about the world before my feet hit the floor. What happened overnight. What might happen today. What my nervous system hasn’t had a chance to digest yet. And then, almost immediately, someone needs milk. Someone can’t find their shoes. Someone wants to tell me a story that starts in the middle and makes no sense, but somehow feels urgent. I move through my morning holding two realities at once: a world that feels loud, heavy, and uncertain, and a home that

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