Week one. Frightened, hopeful, tired. In that order, all day.
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Tuesday 29 October 2024
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Week one. Frightened, hopeful, tired. In that order, all day.
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Week one, night shifts, and I could not work out which day my week began.
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Beginning again, third time, and I have stopped counting it as a failure.
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Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.
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I would change how much I read at 2am.
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Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.
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Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.
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Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.
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Osric Sounds like a good GP. Hold onto them.
It is going all right. That is a strange sentence to be able to write.
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Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.
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Ned That is a good one. Thank you for putting it down.
I would say: the obvious question is the right question, and nobody here sighs.
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Ida That is a real milestone and it has no number attached, which is the best kind.
I would change how much I read at 2am.
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Started at sixty-two and I feel late to everything, and everybody here has been lovely about that.
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Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.
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Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.
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What I would tell myself: it becomes ordinary, and ordinary is the good outcome.
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