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Amanda BigleyThe goal of writing should be to delight. With over four billion active pages on the Internet, adding another blog can feel like adding a drop of water to the ocean, just another voice in the crowd, more information for an already oversaturated society. These feelings aren't wrong, but choosing not to write at all isn't the solution. We just have to change the way we do it.

Delight. There is a reader on the other side. Respect their time. Communicate something of value. You are speaking into the life of someone you may never meet in person. What do you want to tell them?



Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa - 2011
Towsley Canyon, Santa Clarita, CA
Towsley Canyon, Santa Clarita, California - 2017
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California - 2016
La Jolla Beach, San Diego, California
La Jolla, San Diego, California - 2017

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