Here and Now

Trying something new is not my forte - I tend to stick to the familiar even as I dream of possibilities. So I am challenging myself to try this 'blogging' thing as a vehicle to writing - something I have always said I would like to do, yet never take the time to do.

For years I have stopped myself from writing on the grounds that I have nothing to say. This is probably true, but I intend to write just for the sheer joy of stringing words together while at the same time organizing my thoughts....After all, I talk to myself all the time - why not write to myself?

I know quite a few people who journal, and that's a fine thing; I've tried it, but I find I can't handle the physicality of writing with pen in hand anymore - my writing hand gets sore doing a birthday card! Also, the journal-writing I've done has tended to be at times of emotional crisis, so that I am capturing the details of a deep well of emotional despair at the end of a relationship, or complaining about something or someone....I would rather, now, write of joy, and sunshine, and hope, as well as negative things, in the balance that is life.

We'll see how it goes....