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choices are like a mini-death, where we lose a possibility of what our lives and work might become.

Because the telling is alive, shaped by whatever grief or joy we've carried into that particular afternoon.

My friend (and contributor) Sienna told me to treat Scary Boots as a duty. Not a duty to myself, but to the world. It’s my duty to follow the vision I have and share Scary Boots with the world. I like that.

I don’t think I’m so good at that kind of friendship. My friendships, if they persist for long enough, have a way of getting weighty. But heaviness is also part of the magic—it’s hard to love someone or something without getting in too deep. I think the right people will follow you into the water, and teach you how to swim.

the answer wasn’t to coast or climb higher. It was to begin again

Conversations are more invigorating to me when we’re both using “I.”