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I did it. I have consistently written in this blog and kept it active and growing for one full year. I am pleased and proud! Tonight I am composing my 46th entry, so in 12 months time that means I have averaged writing near to once a week. Hooray!
So why is this significant? Well, if you go back to my very first post you will read that one of my main reasons for starting a blog was so that I would have a tool that would compel me to be accountable to my writing and to write regularly. I am a writer, a poet, a wordsmith, a speller, an editor, a complete and total fool for the written word. Writing is my one true art, my love, my passion, my therapy and my pastime. Why then did I need compulsion to keep writing on a regular basis? Because, as many of you know, I am also a single, homeschooling, work at home mother, as well as an activist, a trance dancing priestess, a birth attendant in varying forms, a dog rescuer, a friend to many, a lover to a few, a cook, and a Burner, and that all takes up a whole, big lot of my time, and sometimes writing gets lost in it. But since I started my blog 1 year ago I have been writing more than I have in years. Hip, hip hooray!
So what else have my blog and I accomplished this year? We have seen deaths and births and sometimes both at the same time and have continued to work out our feelings about such matters. We have facilitated the beginning stages of my sons' adolescent years with sensitivity and just a hint of hilarity. We rescued and adopted a large, male rottweiler to add to our pack of two females, an elderly black lab and an also recently rescued, young husky shepherd. We also brought home an entire family of chickens, one mother hen and 10 chicks who grew up and then were systematically decimated by said husky shepherd leaving us, once again, chickenless. We have seen friends come live on our land, then leave no longer quite what I could call friends, to be replaced by other kind people with whom we share the land, and it seems there is a continual coming and going of the occupants of this place. We fulfilled the dream of many years of attending Burning Man, and decided that we ought to continue to go ad infinitum. We have had my lovers drift in and drift out, yet I am still occupying the romantic limbo that has been my place for many years now. We have been trying, essentially, to learn about and to live in love. We have enjoyed many, many moments with my young sons, and laughed heartily together. We have propagated poetry onto the planet. We have survived the season of the snake on this here mountain, and successfully hosted a breathtaking wedding ceremony practically in the rattlesnake snake den with no ill outcomes. We have trance danced and explored the ethers then come back to tell the tales. We have thought at times we would die from the exquisite pain of it all and others as though the deafening bliss would keep us aloft infinitely. We, apparently, have bonded, my blog and I, because I am now referring to my blog together with myself in the first person plural as if we were the best of buddies out doing all this wild marauding together. And thus, we must be.
So come one and come all and join my blog and me on the fabulous adventure of life through the next year. Let's continue to learn and grow and think and feel together, all of us. I have so thoroughly enjoyed the great dialogue that has arisen out my last posts and their comments; this is exactly the type of discourse I have always hoped for. Talk to me! Tell me what you think when I tell you what I think! Let's dialogue (I love using that word in a verb tense). I was telling a friend (you know who you are you sweet thing ;) tonight while celebrating the glory of my one year old blog that what I miss the most about the academic setting, and dear god I do miss it, is the excellent discourse amongst peers. It is one thing to read and write and formulate opinions and proffer them, but it is through the process of discussing them and sharing them and dissecting them then integrating others' input and ideas that allows us to grow and develop the most in our thinking and learning. I want to do that with all of you: those who have regularly followed my meanderings and those who occasionally drop in and those who are totally new to my zealous opining (ooh, that's another really sexy but atypical verb tense. See? I just love words!). Stick around, let's think together. Let's write together. Let's get our groovy letter rhumba on together!
For my blog's birthday my offer to you, dear readers, is a birthday gift. For every reader who leaves a comment on this birthday post, I promise to write a personal and individualized haiku in response to your comment. I assure that these haiku will be authentic and finely crafted pieces of poetic pleasure that you will treasure for years to come. I'd love to make poetry for all of you, and that is what I shall do. Thank you for your support and input, dear readers. I hope you'll stick around.
Tonight's composition was accompanied by a deeply steeped and well-cooled quart of red lavender tea.
14 comments:
Yup.
I definitely love you!
And your blog.
I will, of course, spend several tortured moments angry at you for keeping yourself from me for so long, but I'll be over it before this comment even posts. Aaaaah, the magic of the internet!
:)
I loooooove your blog title...
I only spent a few quick moments reading here, but I'll be back.
happy blog-birthday!!
That's quite a mouthful!! I like the Salvador Dali picture...His art is pretty whacked!!!
Love, Chris
Lisa the Lucky Star!
Oh my god! I feel like a groupie who just got sweat on by her rock god! And to think all this time I didn't comment on your blog was because I figured you wouldn't want another blog to look at! Yay!
If you want to see a very early post about the origin of my blog's name (thanks for noticing, I labored long and hard over it) check out:
http://just-a-position.blogspot.com/2005/11/whats-in-name.html
So, you Lucky Star, you get the first haiku:
therapy and sons
writing, writing, writing, oh!
we need attention
Love you. Please stay in touch and I promise to do the same.
chris's haiku:
the things i would say
to your face are different
hey, how are you? good.
My very own Justina haiku! Who could fucking resist that?!?
me want haiku now
pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
miss you xo 'lanna
for ashaya:
my luck you found me
grace, wisdom, strength, passion all
your mantle. thank you
for alanna:
always so quiet
then lit up with fire glowing
power raw gorgeous
(and you know i mean lit up with fire to spin, right? not the other kind... just had to make sure 'cause otherwise, what the hell kind of thing is that to say?!)
by grace I found you
I mirror and reflect your
wisdom, strength, passion
finally checked out your blog. i already think you are brilliant and i hear your musings on many topics damn near daily. so really i am just shamelessly seeking a personal haiku from you. hugs,sarah
you're hot
Oh, I love my haiku!!
I'm sorry I didn't come back sooner--vacation, etc.
I don't know who Mimi is, but that comment made me giggle.
I'm still trying to absorb your poem above. It's powerful, beautiful.
sarah's haiku:
longer than any
you have been my touchstone core
funny, moving - us
mimi's haiku:
(mimi, for those who may not know, is my little sister: her blog is http://runforyourlife.blogs.friendster.com)
you are living proof
no matter the bullshit lies
girls and guitars go
Just
I love your blog, I feel like I am indulging in potato chips (the really good, extra greesy kind) as I read your words. They go down tasting so good, they go down one after another. I am left like a poor adict, fingers full of salt, dipping unaware into the bag- to your beautifull blog. I discovered your blog a few weeks ago, when my friend sent me your poem (raise it up) after having been sent it herself by our teacher whapio.
I love and admire you.
You are the women I pray for every time I light candles for love and peace and TRUE balance in this world.
I waited a while to comment you in hopes of being exactly 1 month belated to your birthday blog. Hoping that you may consider creating a Haiku for me. Which I would indeed treasure.
I have a blog on tribe, which I can't link you too, as I am computer illiterate. But you may look me up or e-mail at claire_mermaid@hotmail.com
blessings and love.
claire,
I apologize for taking so long to get to your haiku. Thank you so much for your incredibly kind words.
technology quakes
with raw possibility
we found each other!
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