Hyphenated-Homestead

Someone hits “like” at 11:47 pm. I picture a tired thumb, a soft lamp, a quiet nod across the internet.

This one’s for the middle—the part that isn’t shiny like the beginning or celebratory like the end. The middle is chai my wife brings by the keyboard when I am in my basement office way too long on a weeknight. It’s our STLMM volunteers stacking chairs after everyone else has left. It’s a friend texting “this line!” and keeping me honest.

If you’ve been here since Post 1, or wandered in around 63, you kept this from feeling like a one-person thing. You told me when something landed. More importantly, you told me when it didn’t. My close friends and family, you let me write the small truths without making them into speeches. My local and extended global community, you reminded me that just showing up counts.

Writing doesn’t need applause. But it needs company. Thank you for being the steady middle that let this quietly add up.

If this blog has a spine, it’s made of your small kindnesses.

Your Turn
Who kept you company in the middle?

(One more to go for the milestone)

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