Don Martin

You're going to come away from my books.

You're going to come away from whatever it is that I'm creating.

Hopefully, that's the goal of not only being informed, but you're going to laugh along the way.

You're going to realize that even though the night is dark and full of terrors, you can learn about it in a way that feels uplifting and hopeful.

A lot of times we engage with

deep dark topics, loneliness, death, religion, politics, all of those kinds of things, and come away just feeling really depressed and hopeless.

And who am I?

I'm one person.

I don't matter.

And I think bringing it back to something that you all talk about, I think giving people a sense of purpose and a sense that this information isn't too much for you

You can learn it.

You can learn a new thing.

You can embrace a new thing.

You can talk about the big scary stuff in life and your opinion on it, your involvement in it, even just your willingness to learn about it matters because you matter.

You as a cog in a machine, you as one of

380 something million people, you as one of 7 billion people, you still matter and you can make an impact because real impact isn't necessarily made at the national or international level, is most often made and felt most deeply at the community level, at your street level, in your home.

And I think that storytelling and inviting is an invitation into a bigger conversation that other people, that you might otherwise

think you don't really, it's too big, it's too scary, it's too much.

I don't even want to broach it because I just don't, my anxiety can't handle it.

My mental health can't handle it.