Welcome.

This is the very first issue of Wide Open Games. I don’t know what it will turn into. I’ve never run a business before, and I have no idea if it will find success. For all I know, Wide Open Games could be featured on Oprah’s Book Club or it could go out to 43 like-minded weirdos for a year and then die silently. I hope it’s the former, but if it’s the latter, I hope you’re one of those weirdos. Whatever the case, here it is. It’s starting. I’m sending it out.

This launch is a result both of one momentous decision and repeated small actions in support. It’s both a leap off the high dive and climbing the ladder up to the board rung by terrifying rung. It’s knocking on your boss’ door to ask for more vacation time and nights spent in front of the mirror practicing your speech.

And this start is also about trusting that it will turn it out okay. I’m trusting that there is enough abundance in the universe to support Wide Open Games. I trust that in this leap, the net will appear.

Which is not so say that I don’t have doubt because I do. But as the great Sugars and Idia Arie say, courage isn’t the absence of fear, “Courage is action in the face of fear.” Which to me is what the four games in this issue are all about. They’re about starting big and small, and overcoming doubt, and saying yes in a world that’s constantly saying no, and having compassion for yourself through it all.

So come on, weirdos. Let's start.

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