the box can be redrawn

or, on being audacious

“West Point, Prouts Neck”, Winslow Homer, 1900

I’ve come to realise, much later in life than I should have, that what you believe determines everything.

For me, that belief is that I cannot and should not take up space. I have justified it in a colourful variety of ways: I’m giving someone the benefit of the doubt. I’m letting them have a real chance at s…