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Like Clockwork

A Playlist for the Pulse of Reinvention

Gillian Fletcher
Aug 19, 2025
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As a DJ, I always take requests. What’s your recalibration ritual when the gears grind or the rhythm feels off?

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Share your favorites…and maybe you’ll inspire my next playlist!


Six months into our Dutch experiment, life has taken on a strange sort of sync. Not perfection. Not ease, but a rhythm. One made of train schedules, new careers, clumsy Nederlands, and unexpected bursts of joy that make it all feel worth it.

This is a playlist about living not in precise tick-tock form, but in the messy, emotional machinery of building a life. It’s about recalibration, recovery, and ritual—daily surprises, emotional pivots, and the pulse of persistence.

So open the windows, pour a cup of something warm (or strong), and let these songs walk with you through the in-between.

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