transformation

Conversely, when Johanna after 18 months finally asks me out (and I feel that other kind of joy—the one that tells me that she is a path towards life)

that a person like her could even exist was enough to make me feel that the world was a good place.

the irony is that most of our heroes went through this exact liminal space. joan didion, in her early thirties, took a leave from her magazine job to figure out what she really believed. toni morrison didn’t publish her first novel until age 39. greta gerwig started writing and directing after a long stretch of feeling “off-purpose” in her acting... See more