Please don’t force me to wake before daybreak, turn on a bright screen, and create. I am not a morning person. I bear no resemblance to anything remotely human until after my second cup of coffee. My grunts and groans are unintelligible, stringing two words together is an impossibility, concocting a coherent sentence — well, that’s not happening. I have learned to avoid my weaknesses.
Before the pandemic, Friday night dinner plans were a ritual. I looked forward to an enjoyable way to mark the week’s end. I met my friends, enjoying wonderful meals while we discussed the latest happenings and shared juicy gossip. We told jokes, laughed, and celebrated the highs and lows of what was once normal life. Many nights I came home to my laptop, and with a burst of energy, I would write dawn tinted the sky.
On the rare occasions when our schedules conflicted, I considered it a small sacrifice to stay home and write. It was pure bliss. Ordering carry-out was a decadent, self-indulgent treat that let me write to my heart’s content. No cooking or cleaning meant I could kick back and indulge my passion for writing.
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and tonight I am missing the joy of dinner with my dear friends.
Do you write on Friday night?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
To my surprise, I discovered I am a morning person. Something about that time of the morning when most of the world is still asleep, makes for the perfect atmosphere in my office and I can usually write up a storm. Until lockdown and a certain persons heart attack has changed all that. I’m praying I get it back and soon!
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You and Anita are often in my thoughts. I hope things are improving. 💗 These days the only way I can consider myself a morning writer is if I have stayed up all night. Maybe someday. 🙂
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Everything is getting a little better each day, Jo…
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That is so good to hear.
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Thank you for sharing. 🙏
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My writing schedule is pretty much unscheduled. I cannot sit down and write at a particular time during the day. I write when I have the itching to write.
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Like you I have no set time. I must utilize any spare moment. They say where there is a will there is a way. Your will is strong. 💪
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Thank you for sharing 💗🌹
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Always love to read and share your post, My Dear!
xoxo
😘💕🌹😁
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