I looked at my blog today and discovered I haven’t written anything for almost two years. I have also been experiencing anxiety. Doing my checklist of what might be wrong, I went through work, relationships, health, the climate crisis and hitting fifty. It turns out I haven’t expressed myself in a coherent manner. Expressing myself, in this context, means I haven’t written my way to understanding something or at the very least a better understanding.

This break from writing is largely the...