Now Note: the sound of focus

There was a moment today
when everything went quiet.
Not because the world slowed down
but because I did.

No music.
No inbox.
Just the soft scratch of a pencil.
The creak of the chair.
The sound of my own thinking,
without the need to rush it.

I remembered that focus isn’t force.
It’s listening.

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🍃 Now Notes is a series of reflections: a way to pause, notice the present, and come back to yourself.