Aw shucks @jaynie... now I'm feeling all bashful and blushing! You're too kind!

But you have my attention (a little late) and I'm delighted to see you also got Terry's attention, which is brilliant because we're all the voices that can help make this a better world for ALL of us to live in. And we do that by working together... not in some giant circlejerk, but by relating and supporting each other... even if just to say "I hear you, and I get it..."

It's all a marvelous "back to basics" thing; back to the journal you started when you were nine; the one I started when I was thirteen... and so many others. We realized back then — as we do today — that we had words to be said.

And now... we're sharing those words here.

What IS this "authenticity" thing? It's committing to writing something very close to the discussion/conversation/debate we might be having if we were sitting on your back porch with a glass of wine. It's a flow; it's not trying to "be something" or teaching someone how to boil an egg.

It's LIFE.

xo