Lights on

"When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of."
--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

I wrote a whole long rambling blog post, and then I decide Anne Lamott said it better (and certainly more succinctl...