It has been a long time since I have sat to write a post for here. Blogging has been such an important part processing all the things in my life and I have ignored any analysis that has suggested that blogging is now yesteryear, giving way to twitter or other forms of media that I probably don’t know about yet.
However, the things that I would formerly have posted here … a quote, a video, a review … are finding their place on my Facebook page. I don’t twitter really though I have an account and have twitterfeed set up to post my updates, my new blog posts, my shared googlereader. But Facebook has been a more convenient place for those short snippets of daily life.
Still, there is something missing when I am not writing. I am beyond the verge of the next season of my life and I know there is no turning back. So many wonderful things and people have been filling my days and I want to write about it all. I must find a way back here, back to writing and putting my life out there to share.
Someone recently asked me why blog? Though at the time, I had not posted in a long time, I told her, “When I am not blogging, I find that I become creatively constipated.” Writing it in a journal is not the same … those pages usually just get full of the vomit, the dross that is skimmed off the top. Writing here is more focused and therapeutic and helps me release my energy so that I can go back and live creatively.
Today, I have put off this priming post so long that it is time to head off to walk through the day that has begun while I have sat stymied in front of the computer screen. But already, I feel lighter, ready to see the world with more clarity.
erin said,
June 18, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I would love to see you write here more often. I miss hearing more of your insight.
Kimber said,
June 18, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Yes… I love facebook… you know I do… and twitter, not so much, although I understand it’s usefulness. Now whether or not you ever write the great american novel or not… the reason this forum works is because you are a writer! not of snippets, but of learning and processing.
I too have missed your writing. Glad you are back. So, now what??
Jean said,
June 18, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I’m glad you are back, but I understand how easy it is to be pulled away.
Your wisdom and thoughtfulness are a bright spot for me.