True Connection

I think deep, honest connection is the most vulnerable and meaningful thing we can do. To me, it’s one of the foundations for a meaningful life. Kendall and I were talking to our kids the other day and we shared that most things in life are meaningless. Many of us project meaning onto things because we are searching. We want this or that to mean something more than it does because we want to feel valued, important, seen, worthy, etc. and turning to something we can control in search of meaning is safer. 

When we aren’t grounded by lasting meaning, we can reach out desperately to fill the void–like the purse I had when I was a little girl that I filled with a bunch of random trinkets as well as paper towels for bulk, because I wanted to feel important because grown ups who had full purses seemed to be important, they seemed to have purpose. In my experience, filling the void with things I’ve projected meaning onto is deeply unsatisfying. It becomes an insatiable monster that I serve, a …