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Stéphanie Cruchandeau's avatar

Matt, I usually read your words but this time I decided to listen and it was a wonderful 2minutes. I love rain and the way you’re describing it is as soothing as how I feel when I sit by the window to listen to it crash and drop.

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Valentina's avatar

Beautifully written and read. Raindrops have become something very special and I'll never look at them the same way. Thank you Matt.

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Kaitlyn Rightmyer's avatar

When one can so brilliantly tell about what others would not even notice… thank you. ✨

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Thank you for such a lovely comment, Kaitlyn. So pleased you enjoyed the post.

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Matthew Long's avatar

Matt, I listened to you read this, and it was wonderful. I closed my eyes and could envision the scene. Yesterday, as I was going about my household chores, a beam of sunlight came through the window. It revealed a hidden world—dust motes floating in the air, dog fur shed on the floor, fingerprints upon the glass. A moment later, a cloud passed in front of the sun, and what had been revealed was once again hidden.

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Matt Inwood's avatar

It's probably a lesson to us both to improve our cleaning regimes...! But it almost certainly tells us how much we see, miss and ignore, question its and our (in)significance. Thanks, as always.

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Andrew Eberlin's avatar

Beautiful words on the art of seeing, Matt.

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Praise from a fellow seer. Thanks so much, Andrew.

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Claire Ruston's avatar

Beautiful. Humbling. (Humbling in that if I looked at rain on a window my description would probably be, 'Huh, it's raining.' 😂) Would love a post on your writing process some day.

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Thank you, Claire. I love reading about people's writing processes... I heard it said of Orwell, just the other day, that you could 'hear him thinking on the page' and I like that a lot.

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Christine McFadden's avatar

Such beautiful words

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Thanks so much, Christine. x

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Sometimes I miss rain.

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Matt Inwood's avatar

My dog loves water, but looks so sad to be setting off for a walk in the rain. I think I'd miss it a lot (rain, not the dog).

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Vanilla Black's avatar

I like him

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Her, though she’s not too troubled by pronouns, only by mealtime unpunctuality (and rain).

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Oops

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