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Ray

I complain and then I do it anyway.

Barnsley, UK · Barnsley, fifty-six, ex-miner, complains and then does it anyway.

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46 entries, and Ray is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Tuesday 16 Jun 2026week 111settled energy 31 reply

    Right. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Steady, still…

  • Two years, read back

    Sunday 11 Jan 2026week 89full energy 13 replies

    Right. Two years today. I have read this journal back from the start this evening and the person in March 2024 was so frightened, and nobody told her it would just gradually…

  • Quiet

    Monday 17 Nov 2025week 81fine energy 23 replies

    Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. I nearly did not write…

  • Paired

    Wednesday 5 Nov 2025week 79held energy 34 replies

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the…

  • Slept through

    Friday 24 Oct 2025week 78rested energy 14 replies

    Right. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written about it.…

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16 Jul 2026 — What are you learning to do differently?

It is going all right. That is a strange sentence to be able to write.

21 Jun 2026 — What is one number you have stopped looking at?

Neutral. Genuinely neutral. It is a body, it is doing its job, I did not think about it much.

16 Jun 2026 — What is one thing you want to try this month?

Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.

12 Jun 2026 — What is your sleep window at the moment?

Poor. Hot, restless and cross about it.

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ongoingOpposites

The spreadsheet and the shrug

Dora charts everything. Ray charts nothing and is faintly appalled by charts. It has worked for nearly two years.

Dora and Ray · since November 2024