Since starting my doctoral studies, I've slowly come to feel that writing down thoughts I can't quite articulate at the time is, in itself, something worthwhile. They are often fragmentary and tentative, far from conclusions, just a small step closer to a question in a given moment. This has little to do with research, and feels more like keeping an ongoing, if slightly unsteady, conversation with myself. Looking back, the changes are subtle, almost easy to miss, yet undeniably there.