On ending things

Announcing a new beginning for the Extraordinary Routines newsletter.

“What we call the beginning is often the end,” wrote T S Eliot. “And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

There may be a new beginning in every ending, but that doesn’t mean the start will always reveal itself right away.

It was over a year ago that I reached a particular ending. I submitted my manuscript, and I knew in …