replace the idea of being 'productive' with instead being 'processive' - you cannot expect to build something new every day, you can expect to advance deeper into the process given a sufficiently strong intention

“Everything deserves a second look.”

“[I]t may be wiser to try to cre­ate the place you want to live, rather than to keep try­ing to find it.”

in most places there is nothing illegal about walking away from your life

You reach a point where so much is behind you, but it continues to exist somewhere, as memory and absence at once, as images you’ll never see again. None of it matters; it is gone. But it all matters; it lingers.