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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

#68 - The one where I realized I lost a whole year

Boy, self-reflection is an interesting Karma. I am just breathing now.  After the vortex of life and death and hopes and dreams and endings and beginnings that have been the last few weeks, I am just breathing.  And reflecting.  And self-reflecting.

I started by re-reading this blog, moving backwards through time.  Can I just say that it's been a bone I've wanted to pick for a long time about how I've structured this blog.  I wish I could just have the pages set up like a book, so anyone could move forward from the beginning, as opposed to moving backwards one post at a time.  But I digress.

I am a repetitive writer.  I see myself re-writing over and over how much I'm working to "purge and organize" and "continue to find my creative self" and "waiting to see what I want to be when I grow up."  But I know I AM grown up.  I am the master of my destiny.  "Your place in the path of life is in the driver's seat" - that's the fortune I've had pinned to whatever my current computer is (dragged from one to the next) for the last 28 years or so.

As I looked over the sporadic (and I do mean sporadic - sometimes only 2 for an entire year) blog posts, I realized that I had nothing for the entire 2016.  A whole year of my life not published.  Not mentioned.  Not even a brief "if I could only get back to this blog" post. Even the few years surrounding that time?  One post in 2014.  Few in 2013.  Few in 2015. Like a giant block of swiss cheese - loads of holes here, there, everywhere.

"What are you doing the rest of your life?  The north and south and east and west of your life? ..."




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