This blog has been in the works for over 3 years. Finally I am encouraged to take the advice to make this big step, taken from the first quote I put in my book notes nearly 10 years ago:
“Be Bold and Mighty Forces will Come to Your Aid” Goethe
I now have a blog name, years of notes and many years of experience to write about.
My power of observation goes back to when I was very young, before I was tainted and my opinions quashed by formal education, which began at the age of 4 3/4 years when I first entered a school of any sort.
Those opinins, mild though they were in my youth, were usually denigrated in some form or other and thus one learns to keep one’s opinions to oneself for a long, long time.
I have been writing with little or no encouragement and even less productivity since I was in my early teens, as I recall. Any ability to write was certainly never reflected in my abilities at school or college.
Writing in the form of long letters really came into being with my emigration to the U.S. in late 1972 and total separation from my home country and family. In those days overseas phone calls were very expensive and too emotional to endure.
So I started writing long weekly letters home. Simply recounting what my husband and I had done during the week. Later, after the birth of our two sons, there were photos to share and happy milestones to recount. Visits back home to England were never a predictable annual event.
The past 15 years in particular have been eventful and thoughtful in almost too many ways to recount. I kept a daily journal for the second half of 1999, for reasons which in time will become apparent, I try to keep a travel journal and each year I write a long annual newsletter which I may or may not send out with my Christmas card! But at least I have an historical record of what we’ve all done during the year.
In my malipunations you will read about some of my Contemplations on Life’s Lessons ©.
Today is my day to “Be Bold”