CURIOUS AND MESSY

This is what I hope my newsletter to be

First, welcome and thanks.

As for this thing? Well, I’ve had some thoughts. But they kept changing. I kept waiting for the perfect idea. What will this be about? What will my first post be about? I’d kind of forgotten that I had this. I would get an occasional subscriber and I’d be like, how’d that happen?

John, Phillip Annand’s father, of all people, signed up for a paid subscription. I told my lady. She was like, well now you have to start it.

So here we go.

Thanks John.

I just want to write. I will try to make sense of things while making a mess along the way. I imagine at times my thoughts through words will be interesting, inspiring, depressing, infuriating, curious, and confusing. And hopefully, we can be OK in that together at a time when it feels like we are all trying to say the perfect things all the time. Cover all the bases. Hit all the right marks.

Perfect is boring.

Messy is interesting.

I want to write without having to think about those things. At least not be afraid to miss the marks but not be all like intentionally trying to miss them either like if I hit them I hit them and if I miss them I miss them. As long as it was truthful, for that moment, cause…