Posts about clarity

Here is a difference between releasing what weighs you down and abandoning what makes you who you are. In the first piece of this series, I wrote about the difference between relief and clarity — how the feeling of letting go can be real and good, while still being something other than wisdom. I

There is a particular feeling that comes when you get rid of something. A bag of clothes you no longer wear, a shelf of books you will never read again, the furniture that made the room feel smaller than it was. The space that follows is almost physical — a loosening, a breath. It