Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place

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Fear, Doubt, and a Blank Page

Because every path worth taking begins with uncertainty

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Glenn DeVore
Mar 03, 2025
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Walking Path in Marin, CA

I’m scared.

There it is.

My first Substack post.

An admission.

Not exactly the triumphant opening I imagined, but here we are.

I’ve stared at this blank page long enough to start seeing patterns in the pixels, like some kind of existential autostereogram. Maybe I was hoping the words would arrange themselves, but no — turns out, they…

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