Molly Simpson
@spagmol
Spaghetti-brained. Googly-eyed.
I collect dots so that I can connect them.
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
We need to stop tying ourselves so narrowly to this punitive vision that we’ve got to date in our twenties, find the ideal partner by twenty-eight, and have our first child at thirty-one, otherwise our life will be miserable.
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We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
(William Boyd, Any Human Heart)
In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.