…That I had decided to start writing a blog again?
Over the years I have written daily. In the late 90′s, while I taught myself how to write html and build websites I had found it fun to write a daily online passage that would allow the world (or whomever actually saw the passage) to see into my head. It was a pre-blog, considering there was no such word at the time.
For years I have written in journals. I found the sobriety that I currently live in on May 23, 1991 and committed to myself that I would write in a journal daily to maintain a constant therapy and exercise for the strength of my soul and spirit. Being somewhat of an obsessive / compulsive personality I have actually maintained that commitment daily for nearly 17-1/2 years. Today marks 6352 passages in 91 notebooks.
Unfortunately the online blogging tappered off for me in September of 2004. It was just too much on top of the journaling and the enormous amount of work that I was doing with a website at my place of employment. I stopped. I didn’t look back.
Until today.
What will follow, I hope is an insightful and entertaining look into my head several years later. I want to speak to the things that are pertinent to me, current events, life in general and the ups and downs of a crazy world. In my passages I hope to maintain a focus of solutions over the problems as this has been a successful theme in all of my writing over the years. Speaking only of the problems takes the energy out of doing anything but living within them. I am not going to pretend that there are no problems… and I am certainly not going to write without addressing them (how dull would that be?) But I will take what I write about and flip it on its side in order to make sure that I am balanced and looking towards the best way to change whatever negative is within or around me. It has been a great means of growth and development in the past and I suspect the practice will do me nothing but good for the future.
So here we go. I will do myself the favor of NOT committing to writing daily in this blog. I don’t want to make myself crazy. I will visit when the topics arise. I will keep upon my theme of “What if I Told You…” and work into a main topic in each visit. Hopefully this will be a success. Hopefully it will be a tool for me. Hopefully it will be enjoyed.
Over time I hope to hear from those who are reading and pull in comments. Join me in a new and “upgraded” blogging adventure.