Mature Nl - 5130 (2024)

There is a particular kind of silence that arrives after the children have left, after the promotion that didn’t fix everything, after the divorce papers are signed, or after you finally admit that the life you built feels like a sweater knit for someone else.

And at Marker 5130, I am finally, tentatively, beginning to believe that this is more than enough. Mature NL - 5130

Maturity, as it turns out, is not about getting your act together. It is about realizing you were never supposed to have an "act" in the first place. There is a particular kind of silence that

There is no finish line.