Chapter Next

"Write about a moment in your life that felt small at the time, but looking back, changed everything." __________________________________________ It’s funny. The older I get, the more I notice the small moments, the ones that carry life-changing gravitas,  as they’re happening. Not always, of course. I’m still human. Still distracted. Still capable of missing the obvious. But it feels like a fundamental truth of where I am on this journey, here and now: I’m paying closer attention. What fascinates me most is that when I first began turning this question over in my mind, the moments that surfaced weren’t my own. They were moments from other people’s lives. Moments that were surely life-altering for them and yet  rose up as vividly as if I had lived them myself. That’s what happens when you love people. When you care for them as if they walk around with your heart beating inside their chest. You feel the ground shift, even when it isn’t under your own two feet. I digress. Aga...