What do I post for this entry? Should I change the name of the blog---it is a bit confusing to the modern mind most likely. I have batted around a dozen names for this blog, wondering if I was biting off more than I could, or should, chew. The idea appealed, then waned as my self-doubts set in. They have a way of doing that, don't they? Like snakes doubt slithers into a person's consciousness, insidiously, then curl and wait to make their strike on a person's emotional, inner self. Unless a person is firmly situated that strike takes its toll.
At the beginning this blog was an exciting goal, but as time went by I was filled with those negative thoughts---"What on earth do I think I am doing? I am not able to write enough to hold people's interest in a blog! Who would want to read the ramblings of my brain?" Then I had a "friend" who verbally questioned my writing abilities, so that inserted another negative wedge to the idea.
I am always thinking of things to write. Sometimes it is about my way of life(a farm wife), or grandmothering, or the turkeys that cross the road, qualities of people that I love, or maybe not so much. On and on, that is the way my mind works. The best ideas come when I am "empty-headed," the mental me not in gear. I already keep a journal, so this effort won't qualify as that. It will be just stuff that pops up, out of my whole "kit and kanoodle."
I nearly decided this was a bad idea, and then my closest fans ( my children) encouraged sufficiently and put me back on the track. Since this started as a read by invitation type blog I know I will be encircled by friendly people. However, I am not sure just who to invite. I do want your comments and please don't think it is necessary to be praiseworthy. At least four of you are English teachers, retired or active, but I know you won't have that red pencil poised in hand. For that I thank you. Some of you enjoy writing yourself and I love reading what you write. I hope you will feel the same about this. And so, here I am.
Now I am wondering if I posted this, or something similar, earlier. So goes the aging brain.
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