Nudy Kitty

No one around to shake the day off—no friend, no dog, not even a massage stick. The stuffed animals are what you’ve got. Pull the dusty things out, light some candles, and work with it. Silly, but it does the job. Like being five, except deliberate this time.

Frank Ocean slows everything down. Massive Attack for the weight and the pull. Paul Kalkbrenner for that thinking quality, a song that flows through you as much as around you. The right music already knows what you need.

There’s something about old fabric, the way a pillow gives, the comfort built into something designed for holding. The candlelight warm and dark enough that everything else disappears. Twenty minutes where nothing else exists.

After that you clean up. Everything goes back. But there was a moment when that was your whole world.