I turn 39 today, so perhaps it’s fitting that I’ve been thinking a lot about time. I want time to feel slow and expansive. I want each day to feel justified on its own terms. I want the value of each activity to lie in the doing, not in the end result. That’s what Untangled has been for me. Not always — sometimes writing is the absolute worst — but on a good day, when I sit down at the keyboard, I enjoy the process, and it feels like flow.
It turns out, I’ve thought about time for a long time. Here’s what I wrote in a letter to my nephew Sam ten years ago, in celebration of his second birthday:
When you're in high school, 20-somethings will seem exciting. Some wear suits. They have jobs. Some might even have a career…But their ey…
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