Blog Revival!

Hi readers. Happy New Year! As one of my resolutions, I am reviving my practice of reflection. I was an avid journaler in my younger years, but as the working world and graduate school came around, writing my thoughts and experiences down fell off my list of priorities. It's a great regret since I often think about how my journals will be my only record of personal development. I'm also a bit of a hoarder of artifacts and relics, so thinking about all that lost time makes me want to cry a little. But I refuse to let my thoughts go unrecorded any longer! For a long time (my whole life, really) I absolutely rejected virtual diary keeping. I thought handwriting on physical paper was a dying art form that I needed to preserve. This may be true, but I've realized that hand writing takes way too much time and effort and it actually prevents me from getting thoughts out faster and more frequently. So, I had to compromise somewhere...

Although this blog was originally intended to keep track of last year's Fun-A-Day project, I'm just going to use it for any old purpose now. I'm not going to put too many restrictions on what I post...just gonna let the blog take shape naturally. I may keep some posts private for personal viewing only, but otherwise I'd like to keep things fluid and less contrived. So love it or hate it, I'm finally gonna let it be me, which is maybe where this resolution is really intended to go--to be more honest with myself and with the people around me. A form of transparency I suppose...and in a form that's easier for me to handle. It's a virtual space that i'm pretty sure won't get too many hits, so it doesn't really matter what I post because no one's gonna read it anyways! It's kind of like singing in the shower--someone might be listening, but it's really my own private space and time to let loose and listen to my voice reverberate.