Renay, this is great, and thank you for sharing it with us! Let me frame this a bit for you. You are saying this already in your introduction, but I will boil it down into a two word summary. It comes from Chinese Taoism: “Hidden People.”
Taoism holds that the most important people in the world are those who remain hidden from the history books, mass media, political stage, etc. Rather, they are those persons who quietly do good when and where they are, and the sanity and health of society hinges on them – not the fakes, phonies, and frauds on the cable network news and elsewhere out there.
In effect, your introduction restates the concept of “Hidden People.” I share this, for it fits, and it may be of help to you in framing, shaping your writing. In fact, your brother here would like to write a memoir called “Hidden People” in which he would celebrate, as do you here, the goodness of those persons who added good to his life and the lives of those around him as he journeyed through this world.
We share the same perspectives, values, insights here. Celebrate the God-given goodness of such persons as you do here, for God is good. Your writing reminds us of this.
I take comfort in this Taoist insight for it means we do not have to wear ourselves out trying to be “big shots” in order to have purpose, value, worth. Keep it coming.
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