Thoughts on Blogging

Tonight as I was driving home from the tattoo studio, I was decidedly in the mood for pie at Sharri's. However, I didn't think I would be able to talk Katie into it as it was 10 pm by that point and I had papers to sort anyway. And, we rarely ever go over there together. The last time was for breakfast when we were iced in. (Living in a neighborhood as we do does have it's advantages.) But when I got home, I checked the blinking message and it was from Katie asking me to call her if I was home. So I rang her up and she was at Walmart and wondered if I felt like going out for desert at Sharri's. "Are you shitting me?" was the first thing that came to mind. When I told her I had just been thinking the same thing, we laughed and laughed. And we went to Sharri's. I can't quite explain it but to say it made me feel like I was a puzzle piece in the right place.

I've been reading over some past entries to my blog. It's so interesting to look back over where I've been, what I have thought about, talked about, what soapboxes I have decided to stand on. Blogging is an interesting form of communication. Some of you I have met for the first time and you tell me you follow my blog. Others I know on closer acquaintance and they catch me by surprise by what they know when I don't realize they keep up with this. Then there are my closer friends and family who don't read it at all. When I write my books, I have some form of protection and privacy in that most people don't know what poems are written when or what they were about for me. It's about what the poems are for you as a reader anyway. But on a blog, it's much more immediate, much more personal. But when I write to you all, I feel like I am sending out the fruit on my tree. I may not know who is eating it but I am glad you are there. I have been thinking of what I want to write next. I feel a soapbox coming on. That will be fun. I'll have to do something special for the the "365-09 #100" post in my blog a day challenge. Emily and I who have both been doing it are going to go out for coffee. (Remember Em?)

I have to get to bed now. I have a Ministry and Oversight meeting in the morning with quite a bit to discuss on my end. Plus I need to get the paperwork ready for it. Then I have a dance class and now that Stacey knows I will be able to come to and perform at the recital, she feels she has a free license to work me really hard until then. Made her day. There is a Bible verse that says, "Come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest." I think I would like the mapquest directions to wherever "He" is.

P.S. I have now officially registered my blog with http://www.quakerquaker.org/

P.S.S. Someone walked over past the bookshelf where I was shelving books today just to see "who belonged to that hair!"

365-09 #92