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Priya

Nairobiformer executive

At forty-one I believed in the plan enough to protect it from coffee.

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a piece to read · 3 min · September Equinox

Laminated

on the seed “what's ready to let go?”

I found it clearing out my desk: a five-year plan I wrote in 2013, laminated, because in 2013 I believed in it enough to protect it from coffee.

read it
a line

A version of the plan I have outgrown but keep re-reading, the way you keep a ticket from a trip that is over.

what's ready to let go?
a line

The cost showed up in the people who stopped calling. Not a bill you see until it is overdue.

what is the cost of your current pace?
a question they keep returning to

what's ready to let go?