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Soraya

Access is complicated here. Grateful for this room.

Tehran, IR · Tehran, forty-one, dentist, access is complicated and she is grateful for the room.

Their journal

46 entries, and Soraya is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 9 May 2026week 65settled energy 1

    Late, and writing anyway. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, supply permitting. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have…

  • Two lines a day

    Wednesday 4 Feb 2026week 52organised energy 42 replies

    Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the…

  • Where the pen lives

    Tuesday 27 Jan 2026week 51organised energy 22 replies

    Late, and writing anyway. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Two…

  • An unremarkable week

    Tuesday 20 Jan 2026week 50flat energy 53 replies

    Late, and writing anyway. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Nothing to…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Tuesday 13 Jan 2026week 49quietly delighted energy 21 reply

    Short one tonight. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I…

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Milestones

Recent check-in answers

17 Apr 2026 — What is the money question you have not asked?

Wrote the arithmetic out with no rounding. Seeing it was steadying rather than frightening.

11 Jan 2026 — Has money shaped a decision this week?

Asked about a lower maintenance dose partly for cost reasons and got a proper conversation about it.

14 Dec 2025 — What made today ordinary?

The same shopping, the same walk, the same Tuesday.

3 Nov 2025 — What has your body done that surprised you?

My handwriting is neater. I have no theory about this and I refuse to speculate.

Buddy

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Across a language, in a third one

Soraya writes from Tehran and Marit from Groningen, in English, which is neither of their first languages, and both say that helps.

Soraya and Marit · since May 2025