“I started using minutiae on the day I decided I would leave my husband.”

“I started using minutiae on the day I decided I would leave my husband. This was a coincidence, but it felt weirdly fitting. I finish in a few days, and I am now forty.

I feel like every period of four years might end up feeling disproportionately important if you made a point of marking it, but I think mine might be more clearly defined than a lot of people's.

When I see all my photos together, I will see (probably mundane) images of awkwardly still sharing a house with the husband I was in the process of leaving, the insides of friends’ houses where I stayed intermittently for months until he moved out, rebuilding my life and my home. I think it’s the ordinariness of it all I will value.

It felt like a really big decision, but life still happened: meals were made, washing was done, telly was watched.

Your life won’t come crashing down if you change it.” — minutiae participant, October 2022