There is a strange intimacy to the colours we reach for day after day. They are small decisions that, strung together, make a personality habit. Sometimes those choices are deliberate and stylish. Other times they are silent acts of self protection. In my experience working with friends who have drifted into predictable palettes the latter … Read more
There is a particular, noisy worry that visits waiting rooms and kitchen tables: the sudden terror that a missed name equals a failing brain. The phrase forgetting names repeatedly is rarely a memory problem reads like an antiseptic line in a medical leaflet, but it contains a truth that deserves more texture and less scare. … Read more
I used to feel sheepish about muttering to myself in the kitchen while trying to assemble an IKEA shelf. It felt silly, an awkward echo of solitude. Then I started paying attention: the sentences were precise the pauses purposeful the voice a scaffold for thought. That small, private ritual of saying plans and problems out … Read more
There is a particular calm impatience that runs through many people who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. They do not hustle for attention. They seldom need to polish every sentence for an algorithm. They know how to hold an opinion without feeling it must be broadcast to a thousand strangers to be … Read more
There is a quiet competence among those born in the 1960s and 1970s that looks, to younger people, like an old trick they have not yet learnt. It is not nostalgia dressed up as wisdom. It is habit honed by a particular set of social pressures and contradictions. This article reads like a conversation across … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness to people who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not swagger exactly. It is not the loud confidence of a headline generation. Instead it feels like a steady coil of conviction that has been tightened by decades of small practical truths. They rarely talk about fearing … Read more
There is a particular kind of reserve that people born in the 60s and 70s carry into later life. It is not loud. It is not performative. It does not clamber for likes or applause. It shows up as a patient competence in small rooms and in small crises. That phrase How People Born in … Read more
The appetite for quick fixes and polished how to guides is a modern thing. But there was a period in recent memory when people learned to bear, bend, and rebuild without a shelf of self help books or a cheerful app notification telling them to breathe. The 1960s and 1970s taught emotional strength in ways … Read more
There is a peculiar clarity you notice when you speak to someone born in the 1960s or 1970s. Not nostalgia exactly. More like the slow accumulation of small, often stubborn, rules about living. These are lessons learned in a world that still had edges: street corners where you met friends without announcing it, shops that … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness about those born in the 1960s and 1970s. Call it a stubbornness if you like but it is more honest to say they adapt on their own terms. They will learn the new phone. They will grumble while learning it. They will still care about manners and show up on … Read more