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Resliance (Resistance)

Her year in particular has had to build an unparalleled amount of resilience. They have had to pivot, and turn, and make the best of things, and adjust expectations again and again and again. They have remade, and reshaped, and tried again. They have given up on dreams, and found new ones, and then found them again.

And here’s the thing. This is normal for them. They don’t know any other way. This is the only way they know. This is their strength.

My wife writes beautifully about our daughter’s age group and their ability to survive and thrive.

Blogging as a Gift | Jamie Thingelstad

I would encourage bloggers to not think about the individual post. Instead, think about the collection of writing, over weeks and years, as a body of work. It is a body of work that you are constantly adding to. Growing and improving. The individual post is but one breath. It comes and goes. But over the course of time this adds up. It is the cumulative action that creates something truly great.

Manton Reece – No one cares… for now

The act of writing itself helps us think, helps us learn, helps us discover how we feel about a topic. It’s creative and has value even if no one is reading.

Yep. I had to work a long time to get over this emotionally. It was, in fact, part of the calculus in going nonline several years back now. I needed to remember who I was writing for and why.