From the long view, the second life has a shape. She sees it clearly now — not all at once, the way you can see a whole city from the right altitude. The shape is not a line from start to finish. It is more like the ceramic bowl: the first attempts, the learning, the accumulating layers, the moment the clay stopped being the problem, the practice revealing its depth. Not a trajectory. A deepening. She is writing this in the seventeenth notebook on a Tuesday morning in October of the fifty-eighth year, which is her fifty-eighth birthday — a Tuesday still, which means the framework has held without exception across thirty-eight years. She is no longer surprised. She notes it with the satisfaction of confirmed pattern. She writes: The shape of the second life from the long view. The first decade: construction. The ROTC, the commission, the file, New York, the practice being built. The work o
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