Fortnightly things
Perceptiveness, success, and running into your life
A thing I wrote recently
Things from the day
Monday 9 September
Am I running away from my life, or into my life?
Tuesday 10 September
Overheard: “There’s plenty of time for things to just change”
Wednesday 11 September
Perhaps there are two kinds of best—the fantasy version of our best, and our actual best.
Thursday 12 September
The point is to keep trying, because when you do, things have to happen.
Friday 13 September
Overheard: “That smells like a good life,” she says, placing a candle back on the table.
Saturday 14 September
By definition, a goal always reaches an endpoint, or a place of rest. Yet so often when we meet that end, that rest, we resist it.
Sunday 15 September
Me: “It’s begun, but not done.”
Housemate: “Isn’t that half the battle?”