Friends, teachers, strangers, family, and people I don’t yet in this adventure: I’m going to start sending something out once in a while. I don’t expect anyone to read all of it or any of it. If it finds its way into your deleted emails before ever being read, that’s fine too. I suppose one man’s trash is another’s treasure. I love to write. This is a way I can share that and the things I’m coming across and experiencing in life. Not a journal or some religious update of exactly what I’m doing. Hopefully something cool where I can share some things. Whether that be a few sentences or a story. These are things that matter to me. Stories and perspectives. I believe in them. I love what I heard Jon Foreman say in an interview once. He said that, “Music is like this scaffolding that allows me to reach new places that I couldn’t get to otherwise.” In a lot of ways, writing is that scaffolding for me. He also went on to talk about the fact that each of us is an artist. And it isn’t that some of us are born one and others aren’t – rather it’s that somewhere along the line most of us make the decision to stop being one. That part of us is dead. And written on our headstone says something like, “I wasn’t really that good”, “I used to but..”, and “I don’t have the time anymore”. I think Jon is right when he says we all come to a point where we make that decision, that excuse to kill off our brilliance. The artist is a past version, or even worse, a never realized part of ourselves. Writing this, in a way, is keeping that part of me ablaze. The artist is alive. Anyways, this isn’t a newsletter or some boring junk. That isn’t the intention here. This is a freedom. And you are free to engage or not to. I often think about the many people I’ve met and how we are all each on a separate and special journey. Yet, we all play such a big role in each other’s story. Maybe in some ways, when we come alive and set life into the things we love to do, when we unleash that artist in us, we are that same scaffolding for one another. And if we’re willing to go all in– we all get to take in this unfathomable view. We’ll never know what that looks like if we don’t start. There’s no schedule to how this works. It’s on a wild and uncalculated course. Whatever time zone, state, country, or place you may be in – hello and welcome. I hope you’ll stay a while. Grant