Why?

You might ask, "Why are you adding your voice to the din?"

You might ask, "Why did you choose that name for your blog?"

Or you might wander right on by and not even notice me here. That's okay, too.

For any who might ask, here's what I might answer:

Everything we do matters. Every time we smile, every time we don't; every time we hold the door or let the person with one item go in front of us in the grocery line or speed up when someone turns on their blinker so they can't merge in front of us...everything matters.

Everything we do, everything we say, every choice we make or fail to make, it all matters.

It's all akin to Ray Bradbury and Edward Lorenz's hypothetical butterfly that flaps its wings and causes meteorological disasters. Darn thing. Someone needs to put that troublemaker in an insect collection somewhere.

But unlike that blasted butterfly, we have some control over the effects the flapping of our wings might have. Because we can choose how to flap our wings. And that makes all the difference.

So be aware of your wings. Be aware that each and every word and action is a flap of those wings, and that every flap has an effect. You might not see the effect, but you might indirectly bring about world peace...or a world war.  You just can never know.  So flap mindfully.