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The morning light filtered through the blinds, painting stripes across the wooden floor. I sat with my coffee, the steam curling in the quiet air. Outside, a bird was trying out a new song, a series of short, inquisitive chirps. It reminded me of learning to play the piano as a child, the hesitant notes slowly forming a melody. My grandmother would sit beside me, her hands resting in her lap. She never corrected my timing, only smiled when I finished a piece. "Music is in the trying," she'd say. I never understood that until much later. Now, I hear it in the bird's practice, in the hum of the refrigerator, in the distant sound of a train. It's all a kind of music, isn't it The composition of an ordinary Tuesday. The postman's footsteps on the path, the rustle of the paper as he slides it through the slot. I think about the network of such moments, connecting houses and streets into a quiet, humming whole. My coffee has cooled. I should get up and start the day, but there's a comfort in this stillness, in observing the world ease into itself. The bird has moved on, its song now coming from the maple tree next door. I wonder if it found the tune it was looking for.
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The library was particularly still that afternoon, the kind of quiet that feels like a held breath. I was in the history section, my fingers trailing over the worn spines of books about ancient trade routes. I wasn't looking for anything specific, just enjoying the solitude and the smell of old paper. A few aisles over, I heard the soft, rhythmic scrape of a pencil. Someone else was here, doing research or perhaps writing a letter. I thought about all the stories contained in this room, not just in the books but in the people who came to read them. The student studying for finals, the retiree tracing their genealogy, the novelist seeking inspiration. We were all part of a silent, temporary fellowship. I pulled a large atlas from the shelf, its cover cool and heavy. I spread it on a table, the pages crackling as I turned to a map of the Mediterranean. The blue of the sea was faded, the names of coastal towns printed in a delicate, archaic font. I imagined the sailors who used such maps, navigating by stars and courage. My phone buzzed in my pocket, a stark reminder of the present. I ignored it, tracing a route from Athens to Alexandria with my fingertip. The pencil scraping had stopped. For a moment, the entire library was perfectly, profoundly silent. Then, the distant sound of a page turning echoed from the fiction section. The spell was broken, but a sense of peace remained. I carefully closed the atlas, returned it to its shelf, and walked out into the bright, noisy afternoon, carrying the library's quiet with me.

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