Your Story Matters
In a need to state the obvious, I took a blogging break. Some of it was a result of not having the time so much, since having four kids. Some of it was running out of stuff to talk about. I just wasn't thinking that deeply, about much of anything. My energy was kinda in conservation mode, I guess. Some of it was believing the lie that what I had to say didn't matter. That other more famous and well known people have spoken on the subject, and so much better than I can, that it was pointless to bother saying anything at all. I have come to see quite clearly in this past year, however, how completely untrue that is. My story matters. It matters to me, considering how what happens to us forms us. It matters to my friends, because I matter to them. And it matters to random strangers, because it helps them to feel not so alone. Your story matters, too. Because you matter. You are important, even if it doesn't feel like it. Your family thinks so. Your friends think so. I th