This is not exactly the first post I had in mind, but the calendar stops for no blog! Today is World Vegan Day and the happy first day of the Winter Season (never mind that it’s sunny and 73F/23C outside my little cave)! So, I had to get started right away.
How does one start a blog properly, anyway? With a personal introduction? An explanation of why the blog? Why the name? What the reader can expect to see here? And why isn’t the author doing something else (dare I say, “useful”) with her free time? Or, does one just launch right in, spewing out a jumble of random thoughts in hopes that both the author and reader will work it out in due time?
In the absence of a certain directive, I will say this much – all creative endeavors (including this blog) paralyze me! What if…what if it’s ugly? What if it’s incoherent? What if it’s meaningless and unsatisfying?
An old friend used to say to me, “you will NEVER be satisfied.” Not a desirable state, I should think. And certainly not one that I’d like others to notice about me.
And yet, here I am. Bearing all (or, at least some). How easy it is here – to be who I am. And, how easy, too, to project whom I would like to be. The lines are often blurred. On a good day there is no line at all.
I can not promise to make clear which persona is keying these posts, for I am not certain I will always know myself. But, I will do my best to be here for you – at least one day a week, if not more. Over time, it is my hope that we will become sweet friends who honestly share, laugh, grow and brilliantly change with the seasons.
Blessed be.
*hugs*
Hello my dear, I love the blog name and am really looking forward to reading all your random musings, let’s raise a toast to Winter and Jumbleberry Jam!
what a fun blog name!
An empty vessel can’t fill another.
I’m glad you’re doing this, for yourself. And that I might get to share in your thoughts and words.
It’s important to keep our own wells full so we can keep tapping off our little one’s wells too
I’m working on this in my own life. Easier said than done I’m finding. But I’m determined!