Rhythmic And Heartfelt, Personal And Witty

You know when you can feel yourself grinning like an idiot?

Yeah, well lucky for me, I was in my living room so I just went ahead and kept beaming. It snowed again here in Vermont, like a lot, so I embraced the feeling of being stuck inside on a Saturday and busied myself with being cozy, damnit.

But then I faltered slightly, wondering why it mattered—grinning like an idiot.

I got caught trying to figure out if I'd have suppressed the amusement on my face if I'd been in public. I quickly put a pin in that, though, because while it's definitely worth coming back to, I'd been reading a new piece in Strange Pilgrims called Life: A Review by Charlie Ericson and really wanted to keep going.

By the time I finished, I was convinced I'd have nothing to write about today. The author, Charlie, had said it all already. It wasn't anything I hadn't heard before, but the way he'd said made it feel extremely resonant. What he wrote was so original; so rhythmic and heartfelt, personal and witty. I loved it.

And with the snow still falling outside, I sat on the couch grinning like an idiot, wishing I'd written it.

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Our Daily MAP Year Prompt
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Think of the last time something made you jealous. Did you stop to think about why? Or, did you just try to brush it off?

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