GROWTH TAKES TIME
Essays on the intelligence of slow processes.
We have been taught to measure hair in inches and months, as though growth were a deadline being met or missed. But hair responds to sleep, to stress, to the particular quality of light in a season you barely noticed passing. It retains the memory of a difficult year in its texture, a dietary shift in its density, a hormonal change in the way it now falls differently across the same shoulder it has always known. This is not malfunction. This is the body keeping its own record — quietly, without drama, in the only language available to it. The question worth sitting with is not why isn't it growing faster, but rather what is it growing through — and whether you have been paying enough attention to recognise the difference.
