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Freelance writer. Bad poet. Based in São Paulo. More.

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Monday
Apr212014

Dimming of the Day.

Right now I'm part of a family with small children. I say right now because I'm acutely conscious of the fact that each phase of parenthood is going to slip past in the blink of an eye, and each one is going to cut a chunk out of me. But anyway, as a parent of young kids, I've realised that the early evening is now my favourite time of the day. That's the time when, hopefully, you've got a little bit of respite ahead of you while the kids sleep, but also when you've managed to safely gather together all the most important people in your life so that now you can dismiss all the perils the world has to throw at you in the course of the day, and you only have to watch out for the lurking virus or bacterium. Or the house fire. Or the psycho. Or the end of days. 

It's times like that you need a bit of this...