GOLDEN HOUR #015: work in progress

buildings, careers and human beings.

A room of one’s own (almost)

Hi friends,

Happy Monday. This week’s Golden Hour comes to you a day later than normal as we’ve been making the most of the bank holiday. I hope you’ve been doing the same? Let me what you’ve been up to in the comments.

If you could peer into our timber yard front garden right now you’d have a pretty good sense of what our weekend looked like. Wood and plasterboard are piled up waiting to meet their ultimate fate as part of an ongoing renovation project.

Since the pandemic my work has become increasingly home-based, so we’re turning one end of our extension into a study. I’m looking forward to having a room to write in that nobody can walk through … and maybe even a door I can close? (That’s my wildest fantasy but still TBC).

As with any endeavour like this, progress has often felt slow, but things have finally started to come together in the past week.

The same can’t be said for some of my other projects. Since going freelance I’ve been on a steep learning curve, figuring out how I want my career to evolve post-baby. It’s a good change, but one which I need to give myself frequent pep-talks over, reminding myself that I can do this.

This newsletter is part of that learning curve. Returning to this (digital) page each week has become an instrumental part of my writing practice. I have found, over time, that my commitment to The Murmuration is also a commitment to myself, to keep showing up and hitting send. To be a little less judgemental and focus on the act of being here, with you all, regardless of the outcome.

So yes, that means accepting that not every edition of this newsletter will be a zinger. It means that some days all I have to share are some weird half-formed reflections on dirt. And that’s ok; I’m not an bottomless fount of wisdom—just a human trying her best…