Miscellaneous: April 2008 Archives

This is not what I had intended for this Blog when I first conceived it- to go for days and days without posting anything. My grand intentions for the Weekly Wisdom Forum. Right. I should call it the Random Forum, because it sure hasn't been weekly. All my good intentions, all my great and creative ideas unexpressed, sitting as one-liners, incomplete sentences, unfinished drafts. What happened?

I've got lots of excuses that I put in front of it. But besides the full time (plus) job, besides the driving almost an hour to work each way, each day, besides being a single mom, besides needing the solid chunks of time to do my disciplines.....(not in order of priorities by the way).

So now that I've gotten the excuses out of the way, the real truth is I have strayed from my original intent, and made it more difficult than I needed to. Thanks to friend Mary who kindly pointed it out to me. My original intent was to let people know what I'm doing to get prepared, on a regular basis. Here's a quote from my very first entry Humble Beginnings: "I chose to share my journey in this blog format because many people are just beginning too, or are starting over, and may benefit from what I uncover along the way, both from a practical as well as inspirational perspective."

But I got wrapped up in having to have a lengthy treatise each time, or researching links or more relevant information to add to the original entry, or it had to be lovely with a photo, and I'd spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out how to size the image properly, and which side should I place it, and what category should I put it under. On and on so that it became 'too time consuming' to even post one thing. So I put it off. And what benefit does that have for any reader? For me it turns into guilt and frustration. SO STOP IT ALREADY!

Okay, I will. From now on I'm not going to worry about photos, beauty, length, etc. Instead, I'm going to focus on what it's really like on my path of getting prepared, the excitement of finding and learning new things, the concerns about it, the humor of it. For example, the great intention to can all weekend- got all the equipment, the jars, the lids, the food, but never get the kitchen table cleared off to accomplish any of that. Did laundry or washed the car instead. So the jars are still sitting there.

So my posts may be really short two liners. So be it! But they will be more frequent. The Weekly Wisdom Forum? Oh well. This will be more like twice a month, which is much more realistic for me with my current life configuration.