Dear Friend
How are you today? I’m fighting a summer cold, so to wake up to glorious sunshine is a damn fine blessing.
Not sure why I keep thinking about my 50th. It’s still weeks away. Maybe it’s more about the fact, that I’m trying to live right in the present moment this summer. Not wishing any minutes away. So when I decided to document my 49th year daily here on Substack, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was getting myself into. I have a tendency to to create new projects, crazy challenges and set myself a few goals without fully understanding what the consequences would be. I do it to try and ground myself. To stop me form racing ahead. I’m sure I have “go faster” stripes tattooed to my head!
Here’s the thing documenting every day on Substack, wasn’t just about recording events, it was about capturing the essence of being 49 - the thoughts, feelings, the mundane and the extraordinary moments that make up a year in one’s life.
But I do wonder sometimes why I embarked on this j…