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The Small Ceremony of Ordinary Evenings

14 min · Everyday kindness · Calm · Comfort

On a rainy evening, a woman named Wren prepares to watch a film the way another person might prepare a tea ceremony, one lamp, one candle, one cup, and her hurried friend Tobias discovers that the ordinary hour becomes spacious when it is properly attended.

An original Somnus story.

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Story 8 of The Garden Gate, starting at 1:34:18.