Identity

“I spent a year as a creative director doing exactly this. Good salary. Decent title. Work that needed doing. But nothing that required me specifically. Nothing that used the particular way I see the world. Which is why I always felt like there was something missing from the role, and perhaps why I never felt truly very good at it.”

The Epidemic of... See more

But what if stuckness isn’t just psychological miscalibration? What if it’s not failure at all, but initiation? What if the room you can’t yet leave is not a trap, but a crucible? I’m not offering a sermon here, at least not one you’d hear in church, but bear with me!

Nearly every sacred text worth reading insists on the necessity of the in-between.... See more

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

“All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”