I recently asked people to send me their stories. That was it. That was the only requirement. I didn’t need a name or a location or an email address. I asked people to share as little or as much as they’d like either via email or through my contact form. I simply wanted to hear about you. About your lives and the lives of the people you love. The narratives I received are all breathtaking and beautiful and heartbreaking and real. People opened up to me in ways I was not expecting. I read through these stories and I laughed and I cried and at that moment something wholly changed in me. I needed to write to the people living these stories. I wanted to be a big booming voice of love and encouragement and hope and kinship and camaraderie. I used to think, “Who am I to do this...
