Becoming
do not fast forward into something you're not ready for. or allow yourself to shrink back into what's comfortable. growth lies in the uneasiness. the inbetween. the unfinished sentence. you are a season of becoming. Danielle Doby I turned 50 on Tuesday. 18,263 days alive as this incarnation of me. I haven't tried, but I wonder how many of those days I can actually remember and given that the answer is precious few, why have I not been more selective in choosing the ones I've given head-space to? For two thirds of my life I have allowed my feelings surrounding New Year and, as I discovered this week, birthday eves, to be coloured by a memory of a friend's mum dashing around at half past eleven on Hogmanay desperately trying to get the house clean before midnight. It never actually instilled in me the habit of clearing out, just the notion that everything should be in order before the...