A lot of people have had far too many skeptics in their life. Which can drive some to seek sycophants. But both folks are bad for you because they’re dishonest.
What we need are honest people who see us and allow us to be vulnerable. Which then helps us cultivate the same in ourselves as we see other people.
Part of that seeing is coming to understand your strengths in life, the parts of you that skeptics tamp down and sycophants keep you from understanding.
Fred speaking on this
Growing up as the only kid who looked like him in a small, unkind town — and the unlikely place an escape route showed up.
Written for a parent worried about their own child — about a family that went quiet after a loss, and the long process of learning to speak again.
Why he stopped celebrating his birthday, and what nearly thirty years of strange, sudden loss taught him about staying alive.
A childhood nighttime visitor, a phrase he didn’t understand until years later, and a piece of his family’s history he didn’t know he was carrying.