Thank You From Newsletter 101
I was planning to write something special for my 100th newsletter; something that tried to encapsulate why I started The Mindful Minute and what writing one hundred of these has meant to me. But seeing as my 100th newsletter has already been published, I guess I’ll have to make the 101st newsletter a special one…
I started The Mindful Minute nearly three years ago with the sole purpose of documenting things I found helpful, inspiring, challenging, and moving. I did this mostly for myself—I found this format to be much easier than having multiple, differently-sized journals lying around with copious scribbles and frantic notes (although, I still love my journals). It felt more permanent and more real to put those notes into a digital platform, make them legible, and hit share. And somewhere along the way, people found The Mindful Minute and followed along.
With the knowledge that people other than my family and closest friends are now reading this, I’ve felt more of a duty to continue writing. I’ve also felt The Mindful Minute become more of a quietly instructive influence over how I hope to live my life.
When asked about his newsletter The Red Hand Files, Nick Cave wrote:
“I feel I am playing my part in what has become an ever-expanding and robustly vulnerable community of soul-barers. In this space I have come face to face with a kind of truth – a truth that has embedded itself in my life, and which demands something of me, whether I like it or not. I don’t mean that it is some kind of burden, it is anything but, for duty is often the very thing that ultimately bears the greatest rewards. To act dutifully is to acknowledge that things matter, that things have value and are worth caring for.”
I guess what I’m trying to say is that The Mindful Minute has been extremely rewarding. And whatever is happening here—and whatever happens in the future—I am lucky to be a part of it and I thank you for being here.