No wonder I haven't been writing much at all these days...

Music has always been a motivating factor in my life, especially in my writing life. But lately I haven't made it a priority to get the music going in my world. My need for the music which speaks to me has, for some reason, been buried in all the rest--working, working some more, sleeping, chores; even television has taken its place and that just won't do, not for me and my absolute need to feel the beat I've bebopped to from the second I existed-for me it's the very beat of LIFE!

I'm going to change that. No matter what else goes on during the day and in the night, I have to hear the music that gets me going, jump-starts my creative brain cells, and gives me breath. Once I get it going again I'm more than a little sure the creative brain cells will recieve a much-needed KICK and I'll be on my way again...

This one speaks to me, about me, is so very close to what I've always thought and who I strive to be...these are the kinds of songs where the melody imprints into my head, the lyrics have me nodding in such agreement, and there it goes, that need to get it out and into written form...I shared it twice, I think, in my last blog and I'm happy to start my new written "archives of my thought processes" with it:

...all over again. I'm still not sure I should put as much time and energy into blogging as I did before, so with this new endeavor I'm not making promises or pledges to any who read or to myself. I'll write when the mood and feeling strikes and when it doesn't...so be it.

I'm also not going to "score." I think we all probably tend to occasionally get a little, er, concerned about who reads our blog entries and why they don't comment and what we can do to garner more comments and all the rest...I think doing that takes away from my own blogging experience. I started blogging because it felt good to release my thoughts, my opinions, and my feelings into something others might read, but it wasn't paramount that they do so. Then public opinions and comments become intoxicating, don't they?! They become less of a pleasant aside and more of the reason why we choose blog topics and so carefully write and rewrite what we put into this electronic notebook. But I don't want that. I don't want my blog to be about the writing and the rewriting and the worry that what I'm writing-my own opinions and interests-might "offend" or "anger" or "annoy" someone who reads it. No, I want my blog to be for me and about me. Does that seem selfish? It shouldn't, because that's the entire reason behind the idea of journaling, or blogging as we call it in the electronic world.

Now there ARE all kinds of blogs; not all of them take on the "journal" quality I've chosen for myself. Some right here on WDC have started "plogs," where they exclusively share poetic endeavors in this electronic venue, and there's not a thing wrong with that! There are others, some who reside at this very website, who choose to make their blogs more about public interest and issues than I will probably ever choose to do...whatever an individual wants their own blog to be...that's what it should be. For me and my blog, it's going to be about ME. That's it. I'll share what I think when I think it and usually write my entries quickly without spending a lot of editing time on them. Sometimes I'll expound about a book I've read or rant about a public issue that interests/incenses me. I'll probably write about my own life experiences quite a bit, because sometimes when I write about them I start to understand them more than when I don't. Writing does so much for me-

It clarifies my thought processes, brings me around to more down-to-earth thinking than if I don't write it out and see for myself what my emotions may have clouded me from seeing. Writing calms me, focuses me, and gives me purpose like nothing else does. For these reasons alone it would be folly for me not to blog. Blogging has introduced me to lifelong friends...and a lifelong partner

So here I am...blogging again! I can't wait to find out what life events will compel my next blog entry.