Welcome. Thanks for visiting. I'm just a dad, son, brother, cousin, partner, and friend hoping to do more good than harm while enjoying this adventure we call life.
Growing up, it bothered me when people would repeatedly do hurtful things and excuse themselves by saying "Nobody's perfect." "...But what if you tried?", I wondered. "How close could you get?" So I adopted, "If you shoot for the stars, it's easy to reach the moon" as a mantra to always strive toward being a better me.
My first-born loved that phrase so much, it became her first tattoo. She tried her best to live it too...until she passed away in 2021. The grief has changed me. I often feel lost...until I remember that phrase, that she wanted to live it, and I want to live it. I know I will never be perfect. But I won't let that stop me from being the best I can.
All I can do is hope. I hope that I have a future. I hope that I remember to take small steps every day to make small impacts that, given enough future, might add up to big impacts. I hope that when my journey does end, people will still feel those impacts and remember that I tried to get as close to the stars as I could.
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