I already shared two of my reasons for keeping yesterday’s post “short and sweet”. The third reason was more complex, so I saved it for today.
The first part of reason #3 was remembering the original point of this blog: to simply write something — anything — every day. When I started out (slightly more than a year ago) it quickly became obvious that this was going to be a not-always-comfortable process of being honest and authentic.
Sometimes I wrote a sentence, just to explain that I didn’t have anything to say. Sometimes I admitted that I had frittered away the evening in distractions and it was too late to write anything. Sometimes I just posted a photo and a quote.
But sometimes I would get in a groove of sharing something meaningful, which was nice. And then recent events took things to a whole other level, prompting an unprecedented (for me) depth of inner processing and heart sharing. People were touched; we engaged in dialogue; and then — of course — the expectations came creeping in.
So now I’m embracing the idea of peaks and valleys; ebb and flow. Sometimes it’s deep and meaningful; other times it’s goofy and strange. Sometimes it’s lighthearted musical theater; other times it’s tragic opera.
Peaks or valleys; ebb or flow. It’s all good.
