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50 Days to 50: The Night Before (Day 1 of 50)
Tomorrow I turn fifty. Tonight I am still forty-nine, which is a much thinner difference than the last forty-nine posts made it sound.
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50 Days to 50: What I Still Do Not Know (Day 2 of 50)
The open questions are not the gap before the life. They are the life. Some people move through the world with answers. Some of us move through it with questions.
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50 Days to 50: The Career I Tried Hard Not to Have (Day 3 of 50)
We resist labels far more than we resist the work itself. I have been wearing mine since 2002. It fits better than I expected.
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50 Days to 50: The Last Day of the Last Month (Day 4 of 50)
Nothing about today is remarkable. That is the most remarkable thing about it. Today is Wednesday. I am going to go and live it.
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50 Days to 50: A Letter to the Girl Who Was Twenty (Day 5 of 50)
You are not behind. There is no schedule. The feeling was never about the achievements. It was about the audience. Fire the audience. Keep the work.
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50 Days to 50: My Kind of People (Day 6 of 50)
Morals, self-awareness, big heart, common sense, empathy. Not a quote. A job description for the people I want in my life, and the person I am still becoming.
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50 Days to 50: Shame Is a Compass, Not a Cage (Day 7 of 50)
Shame is a compass, not a cage. Anyone who needs you ashamed in order to love you is not asking you to grow. They are asking you to shrink.