Leralara

What do you think gets better with age?

What Time Refines That Youth Could Never Touch

Let me tell you what gets better: Discernment.

Not the “wisdom” you find in a Hallmark aisle—but the unshakable knowing born of loss, survival, and no longer giving your light away to those who’d rather keep you dim.

With age, I’ve stopped apologizing for being too much or not enough.

Too quiet. Too soft. Too smart. Too blonde. Too bruised. Too honest.

I’ve buried my father and held my daughter through cancer.

I’ve unwrapped truths buried in the margins of a forgotten 100 year old journal and the cryptic letters tucked away inside it.

I’ve walked away from rooms that once begged me to enter. I’ve been denied access to rooms I helped create.

No, age doesn’t soften. It sharpens.

What gets better is the power to name what hurt, to write what haunts, and to build something truer than the myth you were handed.

In youth, I wanted to be seen.

Now? I want to see.

See the patterns.

See the coverups.

See what no one else bothered to look at—because it was “too late,” “too old,” or “too painful.”

So what gets better with age?

Your weaponry. Your witness. Your war cry.

🔍 What I’m Working On:

I’m currently investigating the following real-life mysteries and hidden archives. One of them began with a 1928 journal I found in Nyack, New York nearly 20 years ago. Inside were three coded letters from a soldier stationed in Paris, his draft card lists his occupation as librarian, Chicago Tribune in 1917. He then goes on to become Financial Editor, Author, and later Director of The McCormick Trust at Wheaton, Illinois. The letters bear strange markings and a watermark from America’s oldest Papermill.

🔻 Also in the works…Which of these stories interest you most?

Vote in the comments 👇 or subscribe to follow the journey:

1. 🕯️ The Ingenue Is Dead: Avenge Her — How to reclaim your narrative. Its time to understand that playing nice is not a survival strategy. My real life account of how a 100 year old journal, a lost muse, and a mother’s grief opened a century-old cover-up
2. 🪞 Fire Your Gardener — A mother-daughter legacy project that unearths how women lose their power—and how to take it back
3. 🕵️ The Hampson Letters — WWI espionage, Red Cross deception, and the media’s early ties to covert influence
4. 🧬 The Glitchborn Chronicles — For those raised in broken systems and born again through truth

📬 Join Me

If any of this speaks to you—

if you’ve felt a truth too wild to name,

if you’ve buried a parent and emerged different,

if you want to believe your past wasn’t wasted—

This is your invitation.

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💬 Comment your vote on which story you want uncovered next

Let’s avenge the forgotten.

Let’s tell the stories that don’t ask permission.

Let’s remember what they tried to erase.

—Lara

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