Less is more

Every major life change rewires the brain. The retirement plus living even more freely with my identity and expression creates a type of confusion for a while until the dust begins to settle. After 9 months things are more stable but I can tell there is more work to be done.

This is something you grow into perhaps akin to stepping slowly into a hot bath. What used to be more of a challenge increasingly becomes routine and you drop your fear yet again while at the same time being more on guard in public as a female.

I can confirm more than ever that what suits us is best discovered via an iterative process; a "less is more" approach. We rest on a plateau and wait and see if we should proceed to the next one driven always by the necessity of stability and not by frivolous want. For a game this definitely is not.