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@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@
     - was a fine day really.
   - [[2022-12-07]]
     - did focused work on [[agora chapter]] and that was nice. I hope it was enough?
+    - also started writing [[monks in space]], which felt good as well. 
+      - it also happened organically and then later when I checked my calendar-shaped todo it turns out I had planned this to happen (but forgot, at least on a conscious level.)
+      - of course this is not super surprising as the number 7 is associated with monks, and the commons, in my [[mind palace]].
+  - [[2022-12-06]]