Thank you for your beautiful and inspiring thoughts on reinvention. I especially loved this passage: "Life is so rarely linear. We stay too long in clothes that stopped fitting us years ago and we leave some parties before we’re really done dancing.
Complacency often means staying in the comfortable, the known, the almost-good-enough, because we can’t see what’s waiting for us on the other side of the risk.
The trick, I think, is to try things on: new hats, new shirts. New passions or pursuits. Keep going long enough to become someone else — or at least add new parts and pieces to the person you were seven years ago."
Your writing evokes so much for me - I really enjoy your reflections on life.
Virginia, I’ve been reading your Substack for almost 2 years and you have written some really beautiful articles…but this is one of the best. I feel you have an autobiography in you, an ode to your mom and grandmother and how that lineage parallels the lives of the things you thrift. The stories. And you are about to have a great ride—I loved my 40s! They are so much a time of self-discovery and I truly became more myself.
Thank you for this inspiring post! You’re certainly doing something special in sharing your journey with your fans. I am thinking of starting a podcast. At 73!
Thank you for your beautiful and inspiring thoughts on reinvention. I especially loved this passage: "Life is so rarely linear. We stay too long in clothes that stopped fitting us years ago and we leave some parties before we’re really done dancing.
Complacency often means staying in the comfortable, the known, the almost-good-enough, because we can’t see what’s waiting for us on the other side of the risk.
The trick, I think, is to try things on: new hats, new shirts. New passions or pursuits. Keep going long enough to become someone else — or at least add new parts and pieces to the person you were seven years ago."
Your writing evokes so much for me - I really enjoy your reflections on life.
Thank you! So kind of you!
Great writing. What a life already. Your grandma was a knockout!
She absolutely was
What a beautiful read.
Thank you Denise!
You are a great writer
Virginia, I’ve been reading your Substack for almost 2 years and you have written some really beautiful articles…but this is one of the best. I feel you have an autobiography in you, an ode to your mom and grandmother and how that lineage parallels the lives of the things you thrift. The stories. And you are about to have a great ride—I loved my 40s! They are so much a time of self-discovery and I truly became more myself.
Thank you for sharing this with us. 💕
Thank you for this inspiring post! You’re certainly doing something special in sharing your journey with your fans. I am thinking of starting a podcast. At 73!
Can't wait to hear it, Susie!
Very wise words, very beautiful reflection --
I have enjoyed your posts about your passions, but these are the posts I love the most.
So much heart 🩷
Thank you for sharing yourself with your readers
Love this! As a 53-year old currently reinventing herself, it’s exciting and scary and necessary and difficult and liberating 💕
Yes. My favorite substack writer! I love your writing.