Not sleeping and drinking tea anyway

Close-up of an open pocket sketchbook showing a loose black-line drawing of an early-morning tea setup. A mug fills most of the left-hand page and a teapot with a spoon or stirrer stands on the right, surrounded by many small chickens against a turquoise-blue background. Handwritten notes at the top include the date, the time “3:20am”, “real tea”, and “I'm probably not going back to sleep.”

During recent sleepless nights — or very early mornings — I’ve been giving in and making pots of real tea.

I’m enjoying drinking it, and accepting that it probably means I’m not going back to sleep.