Hey!
In sports, they often say a season can pivot on just a handful of big plays in a just a couple of games. The entirety can be distilled into a few profound moments.
Our lives are like that. How many moments deeply define you? How many Aha! Moments do you have? How many more do you cherish?
One of those Aha! Moments was me browsing through the website I put together chronicling my son's early years. I came across a cherished moment that I forgot about: the first time I made him laugh. I had forgotten. I HAD FORGOTTEN!
My Aha! Moment was realizing that if I can forget THAT moment, I could forget ANY moment. I need to protect those moments.
I write now so that I can remember, and I write to understand better. Both bring me peace.
I try to write about my "Big Feels". I hate the term, but it's accurate. I try to fully capture the moment, so that I can revisit, not the event, but the FEELING of the moment.
It's those moments of big feelings that make a life. I don't want to forget any of them.
I'm putting my "universal" stuff here on this web. "Universal" as in: there may be other people in this big universe who may connect with it in some way.
The Empty Nesting series is the ongoing chronicle of this absolute gut punch pivot in life: having your favorite person ever go off to school. This new powerful dual emotion Sweetancholy is a permanent new companion. I was always the one leaving, never the one left behind, so I was completely unprepared for this. I'm entering Year 2 and it's still an intense roller coaster. (Update: Dash just left for his Senior Year. I'm something of an old pro at this now - meaning, the surprise waves of grief are much more brief and without the depth. Easy peasy. Most of the time.)
I'll add more categories, but for now, the non-birdlaunch stories will be under the Featured! menu.
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I love to hear "I feel that, too". Feel free to share your thought with me at Email Me.
Cheers,
-jeff