Fantastic story! I am so glad you found your way off the ladder and Excel sheet (jungle gym choices) into prisms, light, and the reality of time, aging, learning, experimenting, and exploring. The best news is you may be less than halfway done with your life. You'll be glad you figured this out sooner than 45.
Oh my gosh, it's crazy that you mention commencement speeches - I had David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" speech at Kenyon College (my alma mater) in mind when I wrote this! Thanks for reading!
Thank you for putting pen to paper on this. I know this wasn’t aimed at me, but as I entered my 70s and about to retire, it’s good to hear how things can can be in such a jumble and eventually iron out into something very pretty and challenging. And to your next venture, you might enjoy this interview. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marilynne-robinson/
Fantastic story! I am so glad you found your way off the ladder and Excel sheet (jungle gym choices) into prisms, light, and the reality of time, aging, learning, experimenting, and exploring. The best news is you may be less than halfway done with your life. You'll be glad you figured this out sooner than 45.
Beautiful and engaging writing, Katie.
I can hear echoes of Job's Commencement Speech in here, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oh my gosh, it's crazy that you mention commencement speeches - I had David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" speech at Kenyon College (my alma mater) in mind when I wrote this! Thanks for reading!
Thank you for putting pen to paper on this. I know this wasn’t aimed at me, but as I entered my 70s and about to retire, it’s good to hear how things can can be in such a jumble and eventually iron out into something very pretty and challenging. And to your next venture, you might enjoy this interview. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marilynne-robinson/
What a beautiful ode to past Katie and to all of us navigating uncertain paths.
I too, leapt into freelancing as a free fall and didn’t build my wings on the way down as much as I found a ledge to cling to for far too long.