Dropping into place. Letting the notes fall. Saying no.

You don’t know what you don’t know. And possibly unknowingly, someone sheds light where there was little before. Now you have a new thread, idea, potential opportunity – all because they shared. Adding value doesn’t have to be grandiose, it can be as simple as sharing something interesting.

“As my doubts about whether to move to the Balkans lingered, I devised a test for myself that I have used many times since. The test, as I put it then, was as follows: if I end up not making it as a journalist, will something else I learn in the process make it worth…

Within the first few minutes of connecting I shared what I’d been reading lately. Coincidentally, the author of the book had been a professor for a course they took in college. This small world becomes even smaller when you share what you’ve been learning. In the best way possible.

Just another day. And yet in that day a step, although maybe small, was made forward. It may not be a visible enough change for a few weeks, months, or years from now but it’s progress none the less.