How to tell a story when you don’t want to. How to tell a story when you don’t want to record a history. My life is not filled with great tragedies, so far anyway. It is only a story of events, common to most people in the geographic area in which I reside. Those events include births, deaths, marriage, homes, communities, jobs, education, love, children, and all things in between.

Still, most people I know live their lives, not feeling the want or need to write it down. And if we do, write it down, it is recorded in a journal or a diary, or some other way that is private.

My purpose is different. I am going to write my story down and let it go in whatever direction it needs to go, or where it ends up. I am just going to type it out and see what I’ve got. Today is Sunday, January 5, 2025. The time is 2:09 am.

I have not tried hard enough to begin this journey, but it is a new year. I will start again.