February 8, 2008

• Encouragement

  It seems I have been given a “sign” — or perhaps several signs (if you believe in such things).  A couple of months ago a total stranger found my Xanga site and sent me an e-mail telling me how much she enjoyed my entries.  In fact, her exact words were “…I’ve reread several many times and marvel at your insight.  Thank you!”  It got me thinking about how little writing I have done lately, and how much I miss it.  Then, a couple of weeks ago, I revisited my posts about my trip to Ireland in 2005 because I am finally getting around to putting together a photo book with the pictures from that trip and I wanted to read my entries to jog my memory about some of the details.  I cannot tell you how glad I am that I made those entries so soon after returning from the trip — there were many little things I would have forgotten if not for the fact that I captured them while they were fresh in my mind. At that time, I decided to make a quick entry just to say “hi” and let you know I was still around.  I was encouraged to get some responses from some of you who are still around and still checking in on me from time to time. Then just this week, another Mom I know from the boy’s choir Isaac sings in found my entries by doing a search for choir blogs, and introduced me to her blog (on another blogging site, not Xanga).  Last night we had a nice conversation at choir about the impact that blogging can have both for the blogger and the reader of blogs.  So I am encouraged to begin again!  It will take some reorganizing of my time to fit this into my schedule, but I am encouraged by all of the little coincidences that have occurred recently that are telling me it is time to rekindle my love affair with the written word. 
  

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