As I sit with my thoughts more and more, I realize I have A LOT I want to say. I've known this for a long time, but actually practicing it is hard. Journaling and Morning Pages have been helpful. But what I'm learning is that I am looking for my voice to be hard in a more public capacity. Putting words on this blog (rather than locked safely in my journal) is terrifying because exposing my reality out here makes it, well, more real. It's also incredibly amazing and brave. Similarly, I've noticed myself commenting more and more authentically and sometimes a bit snarky on (mostly political) social media posts, where I would have stayed silent, afraid someone I know would see my comments and judge me. In fact, the whole idea for this post came to me as I was attempting to formulate one such comment on Heather Cox Richardson's letter from April 6. Reading it will give you better context for what I'm trying to articulate here, but I'll try to make it so that it...